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 From being dashed in shivers down to Hades.

And 'tis for this I am brought low by pain

Dreadful to bear and piteous to behold.

I, who took mortals in compassion, earned

No like compassion, but thus ruthlessly

Am tuned to obedience, a sight shaming Zeus.

With iron heart and made of stone were he,

Prometheus, who in wrath at these thy woes

Should bear no part with thee: and as for us

Who never should have sought to look on such,

Beholding we are pained unto the heart.

If they who look be friends, then I seem piteous.

Farther than this thou surely didst not go?

Yea, I stayed men from brooding on their death.

By finding them what cure for that disease?