Alcides' deathless valor checks your tears.1835
Alcmena: Why should I bate my grief? For I have lost
My savior,[44] yea, the savior of the land
And sea,[45] and wheresoe'er the shining day
From his resplendent car, in east or west,
Looks down upon the earth. How many sons
In him, O wretched mother, have I lost!1840
Without a kingdom, I could kingdoms give.
I only, 'midst all mothers of the earth,
Had never need of prayer; naught from the gods