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1134 Euripides [343-358]<br />

ION<br />

What follow'd, if she knew the god's embrace?<br />

CREUSA<br />

The child, which hence had birth, she straight exposed.<br />

ION<br />

This exposed child, where is he? doth he live?<br />

CREUSA<br />

This no one knows; this wish I to inquire.<br />

ION<br />

If not alive, how probably destroyed?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Torn, she conjectures, by some beast of prey.<br />

ION<br />

What ground hath she on which to build that thought?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Returning to the place she found him not.<br />

ION<br />

Observed she drops of blood distain the path?<br />

CREUSA<br />

None, though with anxious heed she search'd around.<br />

ION<br />

What time hath pass'd since thus the child was lost?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Were he alive, his youth were such as thine.<br />

ION<br />

The god hath done him wrong: the unhappy mother—<br />

CREUSA<br />

Hath not to any child been mother since.<br />

ION<br />

What if in secret Phoebus nurtures him!<br />

CREUSA<br />

Unjust to enjoy alone a common right.

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