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Rh Of Father Ocean; behold, look on me;

By what bonds embraced

On this cliff's topmost rocks

I shall maintain unenvied watch. Ch. I see, Prometheus; but to my eyes a fearful

Mist has come surcharged

With tears, looking upon thy body

Shrunk to the rocks

By these mischiefs of adamantine bonds;

Indeed, new helmsmen rule Olympus;

And with new laws Zeus strengthens himself, annulling the old,

And the before great now makes unknown.

Pr. Would that under earth, and below Hades,

Receptacle of dead, to impassable

Tartarus he had sent me, to bonds indissoluble

Cruelly conducting, that neither god

Nor any other had rejoiced at this.

But now the sport of winds, unhappy one,

A source of pleasure to my foes, I suffer.

Ch. Who so hard-hearted

Of the gods, to whom these things are pleasant?

Who does not sympathize with thy

Misfortunes, excepting Zeus? for he in wrath always