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Prometheus.
So! What this marvel? And thou comest then
To gaze upon my pain. Whence hadst thou nerve,
Leaving thy waterflood that bears thy name, 326 (308)
And thy rock-vaulted natural caves, to reach
This iron bearing land? Or art thou come
To observe my fate and wail my woes with me?
Behold a spectacle, the friend of Zeus 330 (312)
Who helped to stablish his control, behold
What sufferings must bow me to his will.
Oceanus.
Prometheus, I behold, and long to teach thee
A better wisdom, though thyself be wily: 334 (316)
Know thine own self, and change into new ways,
Since the monarch among gods is new himself.
But, if thou still thus hurlest keen-edged words
And passionate, it may be Zeus, though throned
In the far heights, shall hear thee, so the wrath
Thou bearest now may come to seem to thee 340 (322)
Mere child's-play hardship. Nay, thou evil fated,
Dismiss thy rage and seek thy woes an end.
What I would say may seem to thee worn trite,
But such, Prometheus, truly is the meed
