Like dust that vanishes,

Pass out of being with no help from wings!

Antistrophe I

[*]E'en so the ill admits not now of flight;

My heart in dark gloom throbs;

My father's work as watcher brings me low;

I faint for very fear,

And I would fain find noose that bringeth death,

In twisted cordage hung,

Before the man I loathe