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[647-663] Oedipus at Colonus 637<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Great were this promised boon from thy presence.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

It shall be—if thy pledge is kept with me indeed.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Fear not touching me; never will I fail thee.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

I will not bind thee with an oath, as one untrue.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

Well, thou wouldst win nought more than by my word.<br />

How wilt thou act, then?<br />

What may be thy fear?<br />

Men will come—<br />

Nay, these will look to that.<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Beware lest, if thou leave me—<br />

Teach me not my part.<br />

Fear constrains—<br />

My heart feels not fear.<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Thou knowest not the threats—<br />

<strong>THE</strong>SEUS<br />

I know that none shall take thee hence in my despite. Oft have threats<br />

blustered, in men's wrath, with threatenings loud and vain; but when<br />

the mind is lord of himself once more, the threats are gone. And for yon<br />

men, haply,—aye, though they have waxed bold to speak dread things of<br />

bringing thee back,—the sundering waters will prove wide, and hard to

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