The Tragedies of Seneca / Translated into English Verse, to Which Have Been Appended Comparative Analyses of the Corresponding Greek and Roman Plays, and a Mythological Index

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Oh, rend thy kingdom ere 'tis rent from thee.1150

Chorus: No empty fears, O Thunderer's son,

Dost thou express: for soon again

Shall Pelion on Ossa rest;

And Athos, heaped on Pindus, thrust

Its woods amidst the stars of heaven.

Then shall Typhoeus heave aside1155

The crags of Tuscan Ischia;

Enceladus, not yet o'ercome

By thunderbolts, shall bear aloft