Of Destiny and Doom,

For one who, in the pride of wanton mood,

Spurns the great altar of the Right and Good.

Antistrophe I

Yea, a strange impulse wild

Urges him on, resistless in its might,

Atè's far-scheming child.

It knows no healing, is not hid in night,

That mischief lurid, dark;

Like bronze that will not stand the test of wear,