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Is unto her ordained and given!

For mighty is the Furies' power,

And deep-revered in courts of heaven

And realms of hell; and clear to all

They weave thy doom, mortality!

And some in joy and peace shall sing;

But unto other some they bring

Sad life and tear-dimmed eye.

And far away I ban thee and remove,

Untimely death of youths too soon brought low!

And to each maid, O gods, when time is come for love,

Grant ye a warrior's heart, a wedded life to know.

Ye too, O Fates! children of mother Night

Whose children too are we, O goddesses

Of just award, of all by sacred right

Queens, who in time and in eternity

Do rule, a present power for righteousness,

Honoured beyond all Gods, hear ye and grant my cry!

And I too, I with joy am fain,

Hearing thy voice this gift ordain

Unto my land. High thanks be thine,

Persuasion, who with eyes divine

Into my tongue didst look thy strength,

To bend and to allay at length

Those who would not be comforted.

Zeus, king of parley, doth prevail,

And ye and I will strive nor fail,

That good may stand in evil's stead,

And lasting bliss for bale.