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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340162" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Prayer For Artemis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">STROPHE IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Zeus plan all things right,<br>Yet is his heart's desire full hard to trace;<br>Nathless in every place<br>Brightly it gleameth, e'en in darkest night,<br>Fraught with black fate to man's speech-gifted race.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ANTISTROPHE IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Steadfast, ne'er thrown in fight,<br>The deed in brow of Zeus to ripeness brought;<br>For wrapt in shadowy night,<br>Tangled, unscanned by mortal sight,<br>Extend the pathways of his secret thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">STROPHE V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From towering hopes mortals he hurleth prone<br>To utter doom; but for their fall<br>No force arrayeth he; for all<br>That gods devise is without effort wrought.<br>A mindful Spirit aloft on holy throne<br>By inborn energy achieves his thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ANTISTROPHE V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let him mortal insolence behold:--<br>How with proud contumacy rife,<br>Wantons the stem in lusty life<br>My marriage craving;--frenzy over-bold,<br>Spur ever-pricking, goads them on to fate,<br>By ruin taught their folly all too late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">STROPHE VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus I complain, in piteous strain,<br>Grief-laden, tear-evoking, shrill;<br>Ah woe is me! woe! woe!<br>Dirge-like it sounds; mine own death-trill<br>I pour, yet breathing vital air.<br>Hear, hill-crowned Apia, hear my prayer!<br>Full well, O land,<br>My voice barbaric thou canst understand;<br>While oft with rendings I assail<br>My byssine vesture and Sidonian veil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ANTISTROPHE VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My nuptial right in Heaven's pure sight<br>Pollution were, death-laden, rude;<br>Ah woe is me! woe! woe!<br>Alas for sorrow's murky brood!<br>Where will this billow hurl me? Where?<br>Hear, hill-crowned Apia, hear my prayer;<br>Full well, O land,<br>My voice barbaric thou canst understand,<br>While oft with rendings I assail<br>My byssine vesture and Sidonian veil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">STROPHE VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The oar indeed and home with sails<br>Flax-tissued, swelled with favoring gales,<br>Staunch to the wave, from spear-storm free,<br>Have to this shore escorted me,<br>Nor so far blame I destiny.<br>But may the all-seeing Father send<br>In fitting time propitious end;<br>So our dread Mother's mighty brood,<br>The lordly couch may 'scape, ah me,<br>Unwedded, unsubdued!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ANTISTROPHE VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meeting my will with will divine,<br>Daughter of Zeus, who here dost hold<br>Steadfast thy sacred shrine,--<br>Me, Artemis unstained, behold,<br>Do thou, who sovereign might dost wield,<br>Virgin thyself, a virgin shield;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So our dread Mother's mighty brood<br>The lordly couch may 'scape, ah me,<br>Unwedded, unsubdued!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a><div class=q>
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Though Zeus plan all things right,
Yet is his heart's desire full hard to trace;
Nathless in every place
Brightly it gleameth, e'en in darkest night,
Fraught with black fate to man's speech-gifted race.

ANTISTROPHE IV

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