Who, meting out, mixing with sure thumb and finger,

Lead life the due length: is all smoothness and glee,

All tangle and grief? Take the lot, my decree!


Atropos.—Which I make an end of: the smooth as the tangled

My shears cut asunder: each snap shrieks "One more

Mortal makes sport for us Moirai who dangled

The puppet grotesquely till earth's solid floor

Proved film he fell through, lost in Naught as before."