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Ion (1409-1443)

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Thou art my child, if that is what a parent holds most dear.
Ion
An end to thy web of falsehood! Right well will I convict thee.
Creusa
My child, that is my aim; God grant I reach it!
Ion
Is this ark empty, or hath it aught within?
Creusa
Thy raiment wherein I exposed thee long ago.
Ion
Wilt put a name thereto before thou see it?
Creusa
Unless I describe it, I offer to die.
Ion
Say on; there is something strange in this thy confidence.
Creusa
Behold the robe my childish fingers wove.
Ion
Describe it; maidens weave many a pattern.
Creusa
’Tis not perfect, but a first lesson, as it were, in weaving.
Ion
Describe its form; thou shalt not catch me thus.
Creusa
A Gorgon figures in the centre of the warp.
Ion
Great Zeus! what fate is this that dogs my steps?
Creusa
’Tis fringed with snakes like an aegis.
Ion
Lo! ’tis the very robe; how true we find the voice of God!
Creusa
Ah! woven work that erst my virgin shuttle wrought.
Ion
Is there aught beside, or stays thy lucky guessing here?
Creusa
There be serpents, too, with jaws of gold, an old-world symbol.
Ion
[*] Is that Athena’s gift, bidding her race grow up under their guardianship?
Creusa
Yes, to copy our ancestor Erichthonius.
Ion
What is their object? what the use of these golden gauds? pray, tell.
Creusa
Necklaces for the new-born babe to wear, my child.
Ion
Lo! here they lie. Yet would I know the third sign.
Creusa
About thy brow I bound an olive-wreath that day, plucked from the tree Athena first made grow on her own rock.
If haply that is there, it hath not lost its verdure yet, but still is fresh, for it came from the stock that grows not old.
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Ion
Mother, dearest mother, with what rapture I behold thee, as on thy cheeks, that share my joy, I press my lips!
Creusa
My son, light that in thy mother’s eye outshinest yonder sun,—
I know the god will pardon me,—in my arms I hold thee, whom I never hoped to find, for I thought thy home was in that nether world, among the ghosts with Queen Persephone.
Ion
Ah, dear mother mine! within thy arms I rest, the dead now brought to light, and dead no more.

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