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Rh the cry of  "Misery!" when the curse smote the fell Tyrant of Earth and Heaven, and predicted his fall? When the curse has been recited to Prometheus, and he avows that he repents and recalls it, the Earth cries, naturally enough,

and the naturalness of this misery at the revocation makes more startling the apparent unnaturalness of the misery at the imprecation.

To this first speech of the Earth and those of the elements preceding, the Titan answers,

and he goes on urging his Mother and his Brethren to comply with his appeal. The Earth answers, "They dare not"; and this he understands, for he asks, "Who dares?" Then an awful whisper rises up, tingling as lightning tingles, an "inorganic voice," which he feels, but cannot comprehend, and the Earth says:—

This is in her living, intelligible voice, for he responds:—

And the Earth answers:—

And this is in her inarticulate voice; for she calls upon him to earnestly hearken, with but a faint struggling