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OW have we come to earth's far final plain,

To the Scythian reach, the untrodden wilderness.

Hephaistos, needs must thou observe the charge

The father gave thee, and on these beetling rocks,

In adamantine chains unbreakable,

Bind down this rebel here. For thine own glory,

The live blaze of all-working fire, he stole,

And unto mortals gave. And for such crime

Must he pay forfeit to the gods, that so

He learn to bear with Zeus's empery,

And to refrain from his man-helping wont.

Strength, and thou, Force, ye both have to the full

Performed what Zeus laid on ye: ye have done.