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96 ACT III

PROMETHEUS UNBOUND

AT III

SCENE I.

Heaven. JUPITER on his Throne; THETIS and the other Deities assembled.

JUPITER
      YE congregated powers of heaven, who share
      The glory and the strength of him ye serve,
      Rejoice! henceforth I am omnipotent.
      All else had been subdued to me; alone
      The soul of man, like unextinguished fire,
      Yet burns towards heaven with fierce reproach, and doubt,
      And lamentation, and reluctant prayer,
      Hurling up insurrection, which might make
      Our antique empire insecure, though built
      On eldest faith, and hell's coeval, fear;
      And though my curses through the pendulous air,
      Like snow on herbless peaks, fall flake by flake,