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Ion (1445-1486)

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Hail, thou broad expanse of bright blue sky! What words can I find to utter my joy aloud? Whence comes to me such unexpected rapture? To what do I owe this bliss?
Ion
This is the last thing that ever would have occurred to me, mother, that I was thy child.
Creusa
With fear I tremble still.
Ion
Dost thou doubt my reality?
Creusa
Far from me had I banished these hopes. Whence, O whence, lady, didst thou take my babe
into thy arms? Who carried him to the courts of Loxias?
Ion
Tis a miracle! Oh! may we for the rest of our career be happy, as we were hapless heretofore.
Creusa
In tears wert thou brought forth, my child,
and with sorrow to thy mother didst thou leave her arms; but now I breathe again as I press my lips to thy cheek, in full enjoyment of happiness.
Ion
Thy words express our mutual feelings.
Creusa
No more am I of son and heir bereft; my house is stablished and my country hath a prince;
Erechtheus groweth young again; no longer is the house of the earth-born race plunged in gloom, but lifts its eyes unto the radiant sun.
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Ion
Mother mine, since my father too is here, let him share the joy I have brought to thee.
Creusa
My child, my child, what sayst thou? How is my sin finding me out!
Ion
What meanest thou?
Creusa
Thou art of a different, for different stock.
Ion
Alas for me! Am I a bastard, then, bom in thy maiden days?
Creusa
Nor nuptial torch nor dance,
my child, ushered in my wedding and thy birth.
Ion
O mother, mother! whence do I draw my base origin?
Creusa
Be witness she who slew the Gorgon,
Ion
What meanest thou?
Creusa
She that on my native rocks
makes the olive-clad hill her seat.
Ion
Thy words to me are but as cunning riddles. I cannot read them.
Creusa
Hard by the rock with nightingales melodious, Phoebus,
Ion
Why dost thou mention Phoebus?
Creusa
Forced on me his secret love.
Ion
Say on; for thy story will crown me with fame and fortune.
Creusa
And as the tenth month came round I bore a child to Phoebus in secret.

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