Is there no term of
suffering
lying before thee?
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems
_ True, mortals I made cease foreseeing fate.
_Ch. _ Having found what remedy for this all?
_Pr. _ Blind hopes in them I made to dwell.
_Ch. _ A great advantage this you gave to men.
_Pr. _ Beside these, too, I bestowed on them fire.
_Ch. _ And have mortals flamy fire?
_Pr. _ From which, indeed, they will learn many arts.
_Ch. _ Upon such charges, then, does Zeus
Maltreat you, and nowhere relax from ills?
Is there no term of suffering lying before thee?
_Pr. _ Nay, none at all, but when to him it may seem good.
_Ch. _ And how will it seem good? What hope? See you not that
You have erred? But how you've erred, for me to tell
Not pleasant, and to you a pain. But these things
Let us omit, and seek you some release from sufferings.
_Pr. _ Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill. But all these things I knew;
Willing, willing I erred, I'll not deny;
Mortals assisting I myself found trouble.
Not indeed with penalties like these thought I
That I should pine on lofty rocks,
Gaining this drear unneighbored hill.
But bewail not my present woes,
But alighting, the fortunes creeping on
Hear ye, that ye may learn all to the end.
Obey me, obey, sympathize
With him now suffering. Thus indeed affliction,
Wandering round, sits now by one, then by another.
_Ch. _ Having found what remedy for this all?
_Pr. _ Blind hopes in them I made to dwell.
_Ch. _ A great advantage this you gave to men.
_Pr. _ Beside these, too, I bestowed on them fire.
_Ch. _ And have mortals flamy fire?
_Pr. _ From which, indeed, they will learn many arts.
_Ch. _ Upon such charges, then, does Zeus
Maltreat you, and nowhere relax from ills?
Is there no term of suffering lying before thee?
_Pr. _ Nay, none at all, but when to him it may seem good.
_Ch. _ And how will it seem good? What hope? See you not that
You have erred? But how you've erred, for me to tell
Not pleasant, and to you a pain. But these things
Let us omit, and seek you some release from sufferings.
_Pr. _ Easy, whoever out of trouble holds his
Foot, to admonish and remind those faring
Ill. But all these things I knew;
Willing, willing I erred, I'll not deny;
Mortals assisting I myself found trouble.
Not indeed with penalties like these thought I
That I should pine on lofty rocks,
Gaining this drear unneighbored hill.
But bewail not my present woes,
But alighting, the fortunes creeping on
Hear ye, that ye may learn all to the end.
Obey me, obey, sympathize
With him now suffering. Thus indeed affliction,
Wandering round, sits now by one, then by another.
