One sun, one day beheld it stand—and fall.
And of the strife the only cause was love.
As often as a father shall refuse425
To give his daughter unto Hercules,
And be the father of his enemy,
So often need he be in mortal fear.
If he is not accepted as a son,
He smites in rage. Why then do I preserve
In harmless inactivity these hands,
Until he feign another fit of rage,