Am, heart, soul, head to foot, one happiness!"

Whereto Admetos, in a passionate cry:

"Never, by that true word Apollon spoke!

All the unwise wish is unwished, O wife!

Let purposes of Zeus fulfil themselves,

If not through me, then through some other man!

Still, in myself he had a purpose too,

Inalienably mine, to end with me:

This purpose—that, throughout my earthly life,

Mine should be mingled and made up with thine,—