Seeing his dotage calls for governance
And Iophon to share his property,—
Why, of all this, reported true, I breathe
Not one word—true or false, I like the man!
Sophokles lives and lets live: long live he!
Otherwise,—sharp the scourge and hard the blow!
"And what 's my teaching but—accept the old,
Contest the strange! acknowledge work that 's done,
Misdoubt men who have still their work to do!
Religions, laws and customs, poetries,