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 I dare to vouch, I dare, I say, to vouch

That Zeus will not deny Okeanos

Such grace as this, to loose thee from thy pains.

Of this I ne'er will scant acknowledgement,

That in good-will thou art perfect. Hast thou indeed

A care to labour in my behalf? Forego it:

It were lost labour, nor would help at all.

Rather sit still and keep thy safe remove.

For think not that because I suffer, therefore

I would behold all others suffer too.

Far be it! nay it pricks me home, I tell thee,

The doom that he for one, my brother, hath found,

Atlas, who toward the regions of the West

Stands for a pillar between earth and heaven,

His shoulders' might full-summ'd,—no load to dandle!

Also it moved my pity, when I saw

That creature, spawn'd of Earth, that housed erewhile