That may compassion my impatient grief?

Or where shall I unfold my inward pain

That my enriven heart may find relief?

Shall I unto the heavenly powers it show,

Or unto earthly men that dwell below?"

"To heavens! Ah, they, alas, the authors were

And workers of my unremèdied woe;

For they foresee what to us happens here,

And they foresaw, yet suffered this be so.

From them comes good, from them comes also ill;