The Furies
He must seize power such dreams to realize.
In usurpation great corruption lies.
First Phantom
What is this shape I deal with? It is whole,
Inseparable forever, with a soul.
It is a life of undivided breath.
To break its body is to give it death.
The Furies
There might be two souls where before was one.
First Phantom
From heaven’s battlements a clarion
Shivers the mystic chords of memory,
Stretched forth from every grave and battle-field,
My life may pay the forfeit—let it be.
Destroy me if you will, I shall not yield
To anarch forces.
The Furies
Then by tyranny
You’ll break the giants if they dare rebel.
Men through the giants only may be free.
Destroy them or enchain them and you quell
The Titan powers by whom there came
Freedom’s Promethean flame.