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PROMETHEUS BOUND.


Strength.

NOW have we come to earth's far final plain,
To the Scythian reach, the untrodden wilderness.
Hephaistos, needs must thou observe the charge
The father gave thee, and on these beetling rocks,
In adamantine chains unbreakable, 5 (4)
Bind down this rebel here. For thine own glory,
The live blaze of all-working fire, he stole,
And unto mortals gave. And for such crime
Must he pay forfeit to the gods, that so
He learn to bear with Zeus's empery, 10 (10)
And to refrain from his man-helping wont.


Hephaistos.

Strength, and thou, Force, ye both have to the full
Performed what Zeus laid on ye: ye have done.