_ And do you
hesitate?
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems
_Kr. _ Strike harder, tighten, nowhere relax,
For he is skillful to find out ways e'en from the impracticable.
_Heph. _ Ay, but this arm is fixed inextricably.
_Kr. _ And this now clasp securely, that
He may learn he is a duller schemer than is Zeus.
_Heph. _ Except him would none justly blame me.
_Kr. _ Now with an adamantine wedge's stubborn fang
Through the breasts nail strongly.
_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.
