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THE WORKSHOP OF HEPHAESTUS	A
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HEPHAESTUS standing before the statue of Pandora	B
Not fashioned out of gold like Hera's throne	C
Nor forged of iron like the thunderbolts	A
Of Zeus omnipotent or other works	A
Wrought by my hands at Lemnos or Olympus	A
But moulded in soft clay that unresisting	D
Yields itself to the touch this lovely form	E
Before me stands perfect in every part	F
Not Aphrodite's self appeared more fair	G
When first upwafted by caressing winds	A
She came to high Olympus and the gods	A
Paid homage to her beauty Thus her hair	G
Was cinctured thus her floating drapery	H
Was like a cloud about her and her face	A
Was radiant with the sunshine and the sea	H
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THE VOICE OF ZEUS	A
Is thy work done Hephaestus	A
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HEPHAESTUS	A
It is finished	I
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THE VOICE	A
Not finished till I breathe the breath of life	J
Into her nostrils and she moves and speaks	A
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HEPHAESTUS	A
Will she become immortal like ourselves	A
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THE VOICE	A
The form that thou hast fashioned out of clay	K
Is of the earth and mortal but the spirit	L
The life the exhalation of my breath	M
Is of diviner essence and immortal	N
The gods shall shower on her their benefactions	A
She shall possess all gifts the gift of song	D
The gift of eloquence the gift of beauty	H
The fascination and the nameless charm	O
That shall lead all men captive	P
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HEPHAESTUS	A
Wherefore wherefore	H
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A wind shakes the house	A
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I hear the rushing of a mighty wind	Q
Through all the halls and chambers of my house	A
Her parted lips inhale it and her bosom	R
Heaves with the inspiration As a reed	S
Beside a river in the rippling current	T
Bends to and fro she bows or lifts her head	U
She gazes round about as if amazed	V
She is alive she breathes but yet she speaks not	W
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PANDORA descends from the pedestal	N
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CHORUS OF THE GRACES	A
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AGLAIA	N
In the workshop of Hephaestus	A
What is this I see	A
Have the Gods to four increased us	A
Who were only three	A
Beautiful in form and feature	H
Lovely as the day	K
Can there be so fair a creature	H
Formed of common clay	K
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THALIA	N
O sweet pale face O lovely eyes of azure	H
Clear as the waters of a brook that run	X
Limpid and laughing in the summer sun	X
O golden hair that like a miser's treasure	H
In its abundance overflows the measure	H
O graceful form that cloudlike floatest on	Y
With the soft undulating gait of one	X
Who moveth as if motion were a pleasure	H
By what name shall I call thee Nymph or Muse	A
Callirrhoe or Urania Some sweet name	Z
Whose every syllable is a caress	A
Would best befit thee but I cannot choose	A
Nor do I care to choose for still the same	Z
Nameless or named will be thy loveliness	A
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EUPHROSYNE	X
Dowered with all celestial gifts	A
Skilled in every art	F
That ennobles and uplifts	A
And delights the heart	F
Fair on earth shall be thy fame	Z
As thy face is fair	H
And Pandora be the name	Z
Thou henceforth shalt bear	H
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II	A2
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OLYMPUS	A
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HERMES putting on his sandals	A
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods	A
And I who am their herald most of all	N
No rest have I nor respite I no sooner	H
Unclasp the winged sandals from my feet	B2
Than I again must clasp them and depart	F
Upon some foolish errand But to day	K
The errand is not foolish Never yet	C2
With greater joy did I obey the summons	A
That sends me earthward I will fly so swiftly	A
That my caduceus in the whistling air	H
Shall make a sound like the Pandaean pipes	A
Cheating the shepherds for to day I go	D
Commissioned by high thundering Zeus to lead	U
A maiden to Prometheus in his tower	H
And by my cunning arguments persuade him	D2
To marry her What mischief lies concealed	E2
In this design I know not but I know	D
Who thinks of marrying hath already taken	X
One step upon the road to penitence	A
Such embassies delight me Forth I launch	F2
On the sustaining air nor fear to fall	N
Like Icarus nor swerve aside like him	D2
Who drove amiss Hyperion's fiery steeds	A
I sink I fly The yielding element	T
Folds itself round about me like an arm	O
And holds me as a mother holds her child	G2
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III	A2
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TOWER OF PROMETHEUS ON MOUNT CAUCASUS	A
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PROMETHEUS	A
I hear the trumpet of Alectryon	X
Proclaim the dawn The stars begin to fade	H2
And all the heavens are full of prophecies	A
And evil auguries Blood red last night	I2
I saw great Kronos rise the crescent moon	X
Sank through the mist as if it were the scythe	J2
His parricidal hand had flung far down	X
The western steeps O ye Immortal Gods	A
What evil are ye plotting and contriving	D
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HERMES and PANDORA at the threshold	K2
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PANDORA	N
I cannot cross the threshold An unseen	X
And icy hand repels me These blank walls	A
Oppress me with their weight	L2
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PROMETHEUS	A
Powerful ye are	H
But not omnipotent Ye cannot fight	I2
Against Necessity The Fates control you	M2
As they do us and so far we are equals	A
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PANDORA	N
Motionless passionless companionless	A
He sits there muttering in his beard His voice	A
Is like a river flowing underground	N2
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HERMES	A
Prometheus hail	N
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PROMETHEUS	A
Who calls me	A
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HERMES	A
It is I	A2
Dost thou not know me	A
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PROMETHEUS	A
By thy winged cap	O2
And winged heels I know thee Thou art Hermes	A
Captain of thieves Hast thou again been stealing	D
The heifers of Admetus in the sweet	B2
Meadows of asphodel or Hera's girdle	N
Or the earth shaking trident of Poseidon	X
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HERMES	A
And thou Prometheus say hast thou again	X
Been stealing fire from Helios' chariot wheels	A
To light thy furnaces	A
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PROMETHEUS	A
Why comest thou hither	H
So early in the dawn	X
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HERMES	A
The Immortal Gods	A
Know naught of late or early Zeus himself	P2
The omnipotent hath sent me	A
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PROMETHEUS	A
For what purpose	A
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HERMES	A
To bring this maiden to thee	A
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PROMETHEUS	A
I mistrust	Q2
The Gods and all their gifts If they have sent her	H
It is for no good purpose	A
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HERMES	A
What disaster	H
Could she bring on thy house who is a woman	X
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PROMETHEUS	A
The Gods are not my friends nor am I theirs	A
Whatever comes from them though in a shape	R2
As beautiful as this is evil only	A
Who art thou	S2
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PANDORA	N
One who though to thee unknown	X
Yet knoweth thee	A
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PROMETHEUS	A
How shouldst thou know me woman	X
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PANDORA	N
Who knoweth not Prometheus the humane	X
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PROMETHEUS	A
Prometheus the unfortunate to whom	T2
Both Gods and men have shown themselves ungrateful	N
When every spark was quenched on every hearth	U2
Throughout the earth I brought to man the fire	H
And all its ministrations My reward	V2
Hath been the rock and vulture	H
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HERMES	A
But the Gods	A
At last relent and pardon	X
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PROMETHEUS	A
They relent not	W
They pardon not they are implacable	N
Revengeful unforgiving	D
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HERMES	A
As a pledge	W2
Of reconciliation they have sent to thee	A
This divine being to be thy companion	X
And bring into thy melancholy house	A
The sunshine and the fragrance of her youth	X2
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PROMETHEUS	A
I need them not I have within myself	P2
All that my heart desires the ideal beauty	A
Which the creative faculty of mind	Q
Fashions and follows in a thousand shapes	A
More lovely than the real My own thoughts	A
Are my companions my designs and labors	A
And aspirations are my only friends	A
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HERMES	A
Decide not rashly The decision made	H2
Can never be recalled The Gods implore not	W
Plead not solicit not they only offer	H
Choice and occasion which once being passed	Y2
Return no more Dost thou accept the gift	Z2
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PROMETHEUS	A
No gift of theirs in whatsoever shape	R2
It comes to me with whatsoever charm	O
To fascinate my sense will I receive	A3
Leave me	A
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PANDORA	N
Let us go hence I will not stay	K
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HERMES	A
We leave thee to thy vacant dreams and all	N
The silence and the solitude of thought	B3
The endless bitterness of unbelief	A3
The loneliness of existence without love	A3
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CHORUS OF THE FATES	A
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CLOTHO	X2
How the Titan the defiant	T
The self centred self reliant	T
Wrapped in visions and illusions	A
Robs himself of life's best gifts	A
Till by all the storm winds shaken	X
By the blast of fate o'ertaken	X
Hopeless helpless and forsaken	X
In the mists of his confusions	A
To the reefs of doom he drifts	A
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LACHESIS	A
Sorely tried and sorely tempted	C3
Fro	D