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And thou can'st not discern futurity.

Can I behold the mind of Zeus? Can I

Look into that unfathomable deep?

Due measure when thou prayest thou should' st keep.

Where lies the mark that may not be o'ertrod?

Search not too far the purposes of God.

Zeus is King: may he decree

I be bounden to no lord

Loathed for lust and cruelty.

Mighty and most gentle, he

With remedial touch restored

Io in her misery

To calm of mind from sorrow free.

And may he this woman's war

Crown with victory. Life and Fate

Demand that we exact no more

Than that good preponderate.

It contents me then, whate'er

The judgment which the Gods approve

If there be embodied there

Justice which my prayers could move.

[Exeunt.