Euripides' ION Complete

Translated by R. Potter.

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Ion: O my dear mother! I with joy behold thee.
With transport 'gainst thy cheek my cheek recline. (They embrace.)

Creusa: My son, my son, far dearer to thy mother
Than yon bright orb (the god will pardon me) ,
Do I then hold thee in my arms, thus found
Beyond my hopes, when in the realms below,
I thought thy habitation 'mong the dead?

Ion: O my dear mother, in thy arms I seem
As one that had been dead to life return'd.

Creusa: Ye wide-expanded rays of heavenly light,
What notes, what high-raised strains shall tell my joy?
This pleasure whence, this unexpected transport?

Ion: There was no blessing farther from my thoughts
Than this, my mother, to be found thy son.

Creusa: I tremble yet.

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