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128 Aeschylus [36-56]<br />

POWER<br />

It may be so, yet why seek delay in vainly spent pity? Feel you no<br />

hatred for this enemy of the gods, who hath betrayed to mortals your<br />

own chief honor?<br />

HEPHAESTUS<br />

Kinship and old fellowship will have their due.<br />

POWER<br />

Tis true; but where is strength to disobey the father's words? Fearest<br />

thou not rather this?<br />

HEPHAESTUS<br />

Ever merciless thou art, and steeped in cruelty.<br />

POWER<br />

It healeth nothing to weep for him. Take not up an idle burden wherein<br />

there is no profit.<br />

HEPHAESTUS<br />

Alas, my cherished craft, thrice hateful now!<br />

POWER<br />

Why hateful? In simple sooth thy art hath no blame for these present<br />

ills.<br />

HEPHAESTUS<br />

Yet would it were another's, not mine!<br />

POWER<br />

All toil alike in sorrow, unless one were lord of heaven; none is truly<br />

free, save only Zeus.<br />

HEPHAESTUS<br />

This task confirms it; I can nothing deny.<br />

POWER<br />

Make haste then to bind him in fetters, lest the father detect thee<br />

loitering.<br />

HEPHAESTUS<br />

Behold the curb; it is ready to hand.<br />

POWER<br />

Strongly with thy hammer, strongly weld it about his hands; make<br />

him fast to the rock.

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