And yet I needs must muster courage for it:

'Tis no slight thing the Father's words to scorn.

O thou of Themis [to Prometheus] wise in counsel son,

Full deep of purpose, lo! against my will,[[137]]

I fetter thee against thy will with bonds

Of bronze that none can loose, to this lone height,

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Where thou shalt know nor voice nor face of man,

But scorching in the hot blaze of the sun,

Shalt lose thy skin's fair beauty. Thou shalt long