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Heracles Mad (765-800)

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For change from tears, change from sorrow give birth to song. The new king is gone; our former monarch
rules, having made his way even from the harbor of Acheron. Hope beyond all expectation is fulfilled.
772
Chorus
The gods, the gods take care to heed the right and wrong. It is their gold and their good luck
that lead men’s hearts astray, bringing in their train unjust power. For no man ever had the courage to reflect what reverses Time might bring; but, disregarding law to gratify lawlessness, he shatters
the black chariot of prosperity.
781
Chorus
O Ismenus, deck yourself with garlands! Break forth into dancing, you paved streets of our seven-gated city! come Dirce, fount of waters fair;
and joined with her you nymphs of Asopus, come from your father’s waves to add your voices to our hymn, the victor’s prize that Heracles has won.
O Pythian rock with forests crowned, and haunts of the Muses on Helicon! you will come to my city and her walls with cries of joy; where the earth-born crop sprang to view,
a warrior-host with shields of brass, who are handing on their realm to children’s children, a divine light to Thebes.
798
Chorus
All hail the marriage! in which two bridegrooms shared; the one, a mortal;
the other, Zeus, who came to wed the bride sprung from Perseus; for that marriage of yours, O Zeus, in days gone by has been proved to me a true story beyond all expectation;

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