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SCENE I.

PROMETHEUS UNBOUND.

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A Voice.

⁠In the deep?

Semichorus II.

⁠Oh! below the deep.

Semichorus I.

⁠An hundred ages we had been kept

⁠Cradled in visions of hate and care,
⁠And each one who waked as his brother slept,
⁠Found the truth—

Semichorus II.

⁠Worse than his visions were!

Semichorus I.

⁠We have heard the lute of Hope in sleep;

⁠We have known the voice of Love in dreams;
⁠We have felt the wand of Power, and leap—

Semichorus II.

⁠As the billows leap in the morning beams!