PROMETHEUS BOUND
The song of the bringing home of Hesione, that sprang
Of mine own father, bride
Gift-gotten to thy side. 560
Io, in form half-woman, half-cow, comes in, wandering.
Io
What land have I found? what folk? and there,
One bound with rock as a bridle, bare
To the beating of storms! who is it? who?
What sin hath gotten such pains for due?
O speak, declare,
What end of the earth am I come unto?
Ah! ah! there! there!
Again the sting! the sting!———
Nay, but I know thee, ghost
Of Argos, clod-born thing.
Cover him, Earth! I am lost:
He haunts me still, appals,—
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