By inborn energy achieves his thought.

ANTISTROPHE V

But let him mortal insolence behold:--

How with proud contumacy rife,

Wantons the stem in lusty life

My marriage craving;--frenzy over-bold,

Spur ever-pricking, goads them on to fate,

By ruin taught their folly all too late.

STROPHE VI

Thus I complain, in piteous strain,