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105 PROMETHEUS BOUND 105

First antistrophe.

All the land is moaning 470

With a murmured plaint to-day ;

All the mortal nations

Having habitations In the holy Asia

Are a dirge entoning 475

For thine honor and thy brothers', Once majestic beyond others

In the old belief, — Now are groaning in the groaning

Of thy deep-voiced grief. 430

Second strophe. Mourn the maids inhabitant

Of the Colchian land,^ Who with white, calm bosoms stand

In the battle's roar : Mourn the Scythian tribes that haunt 485

The verge of earth, Maeotis' shore.

Second antistrophe. Yea ! Arabia's battle crown, And dwellers in the beetling town Mt. Caucasus sublimely nears — An iron squadron, thundering down 490

With the sharp-prowed spears.^

But one other before have I seen to remain By invincible pain. Bound and vanquished, — one Titan ! 't was Atlas, who bears

^ The Amazons.

2 Apparently the Medes and Persians.