In deepest darkness! for relenting Jove
Himself must woo this secret from my breast.
CHORAL HYMN.
STROPHE I.
Never, O never may Jove,
Who in Olympus reigns omnipotent lord,
Plant his high will against my weak opinion![n36]
Let me approach the gods
With blood of oxen and with holy feasts,
By father Ocean’s quenchless stream, and pay
No backward vows: