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O most abominable handicraft!

Why spite at that? for in good sooth thine art

Is no way cause of the present use for it.

And yet I would it were some other's art.

All is allowed the gods except to rule

Unruled; for none is free save Zeus alone.

I know: I cannot answer thee thy words.

Then wilt thou not make haste to clip him round

With bonds, lest Zeus perceive thee truanting?

Nay here the irons may be seen at hand.

Bind them about his arms then; smite amain

With thy strong hammer; nail him to the rock.