_ Surely I will insist and urge beside;
Go downward, and the thighs surround with force.
Go downward, and the thighs surround with force.
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems
_Heph. _ Alas! alas! Prometheus, I groan for thy afflictions.
_Kr. _ And do you hesitate? for Zeus' enemies
Do you groan? Beware lest one day you yourself will pity.
_Heph. _ You see a spectacle hard for eyes to behold.
_Kr. _ I see him meeting his deserts;
But round his sides put straps.
_Heph. _ To do this is necessity, insist not much.
_Kr.
_ Surely I will insist and urge beside;
Go downward, and the thighs surround with force.
_Heph. _ Already it is done, the work, with no long labor.
_Kr. _ Strongly now drive the fetters, through and through,
For the critic of the works is difficult.
_Heph. _ Like your form your tongue speaks.
_Kr. _ Be thou softened, but for my stubbornness
Of temper and harshness reproach me not.
_Heph. _ Let us withdraw, for he has a net about his limbs.
_Kr. _ There now insult, and the shares of gods
Plundering on ephemerals bestow; what thee
Can mortals in these ills relieve?
Falsely thee the divinities Prometheus
Call; for you yourself need one _foreseeing_
In what manner you will escape this fortune.
PROMETHEUS, _alone_.
O divine ether, and ye swift-winged winds,
Fountains of rivers, and countless smilings
Of the ocean waves, and earth, mother of all,
And thou all-seeing orb of the sun I call.
