Prom. Ah me! ah me!

Offspring of Tethys blest with many a child,

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Daughters of Old Okeanos that rolls

Round all the earth with never-sleeping stream,

Behold ye me, and see

With what chains fettered fast,

I on the topmost crags of this ravine

Shall keep my sentry-post unenviable.

Chor. I see it, O Prometheus, and a mist