Our only respite, a truce to burn our dead.
4 seconds sound clip from the Helen of Troy (1956) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:19:16.346 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I'll meet you in Elysium where an age of years is just a wink of time.
- You charter a ship. I'll take the flying horse, Pegasus.
- Oh, goddess come to Earth, make me immortal with your kiss and we'll live on nectar and ambrosia.
- But I'm not sure I like being so ethereal.
- Nor I.
- How many years, fellow Trojans, shall we suffer?
- Our only respite, a truce to burn our dead.
- The holiday of a Troy that once knew happy times.
- Must the Trojans always set their funeral pyre so near this house?
- How long will they accuse me?
- They lost many loved ones, my lady.
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