Aeschylus' PROMETHEUS BOUND Complete

Translated by G. M. Cookson.

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Hephaestus: Thy heart was ever hard and overbold.

Kratos: But wailing will not ease him! Waste no pains
Where thy endeavour nothing profiteth.

Hephaestus: Oh execrable work! O handicraft!

Kratos: Why curse thy trade? For what thou hast to do,
Troth, smithcraft is in no wise answerable.

Hephaestus: Would that it were another's craft, not mine!

Kratos: Why, all things are a burden save to rule
Over the Gods; for none is free but Zeus.

Hephaestus: To that I answer not, knowing it true.

Kratos: Why, then, make haste to cast the chains about him,
Lest glancing down on thee the Father's eye
Behold a laggard and a loiterer.

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