ENGB30 Chapter : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 : PROMETHEUS BOUND. [from Poetical works (1897): TRANSLATIONS]
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Scene . --- strength and force , heph stus and prometheus , at the rocks. 1 we reach the utmost limit of the earth, 2 the scythian track, the desert without man. 3 and now, heph stus, thou must needs fulfil. 4 the mandate of our father, and with links. 8 thine own bright flower, the glory of plastic fire, 9 and gifted mortals with it,---such a sin. 10 it doth behove he expiate to the gods, 11 learning to accept the empery of zeus. 12 and leave off his old trick of loving man. 13 o strength and force, for you, our zeus"s will. 14 presents a deed for doing, no more!---but i , 15 i lack your daring, up this storm-rent chasm. 16 to fix with violent hands a kindred god, 18 that i must dare it, and our zeus commands. 20 high-thoughted son of themis who is sage! 21 thee loth, i loth must rivet fast in chains.