Has flower’d to-day in amaranth: what the hope
Thou knowest, who hast shared; but the condition
I told thee not and thou hast heard: this prophet,
Who comes to bring us fire, hath said that Zeus
Wills not the gift he brings, and will be wroth
With us that take it.
Ar. O doleful change, I came
In pious purpose, nay, I heard within 891
The hymn to glorious Zeus: I rose and said,
The mighty god now bends, he thrusts aside