I pray for no more youth
perish before its prime;
That Revenge and iron-heated War
May fade with all that has gone before
Into the night of time.

reported in John Lewin, The House of Atreus (1966), p. 110. Adapted from Oresteia; the lines above are from Eumenides (The Furies). Senator Edward Kennedy quoted this passage in testimony before the Commission on Campus Unrest (15 July 1970); Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 24309