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 No more for ever, and the curse wherewith

His father cursed him in the day he fell,

Kronos, from off his secular seat, shall find

To the utterance then fulfilment. Of such pain

The averting that might be no god in heaven,

Not one, can show him certainly, but I:

I know it, and the manner of it. So now

Let him sit with heart uplift and put his trust

In rummage of the upper air, and shake

An engine in his hands, whose blast is fire:

All this shall help him nothing, nor defend

That fall he should not falls irreparable,

A laughter and hissing. Such antagonist

He now makes ready against himself, a fear

Embodied, ill to match, one that shall find

A flame more shrewd than lightning, and a noise

Mightier than mighty thunders; yea the spear

That palsy-shakes the earth with strength of the seas,

The trident of Poseidon, he shall make

As though it were not. In that day shall Zeus,