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Ion (345-366)

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Where is the child who was thus cast forth? is he yet alive?
Creusa
No man knoweth. That is the very thing I would ask the oracle.
Ion
But if he be no more, how did he perish?
Creusa
She supposes that beasts devoured the hapless babe.
Ion
What proof led her to form this opinion?
Creusa
She came to the place where she exposed him, but found him no longer there.
Ion
Were any drops of blood upon the path?
Creusa
None, she says; and yet she ranged the ground to and fro.
Ion
How long is it since the babe was destroyed?
Creusa
Thy age and his would measure out the self-same span, were he alive.
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Ion
Hath she given birth to no other child since then?
Creusa
The god doth wrong her, and wretched is she in having no child.
Ion
But what if Phoebus privily removed her child, and is rearing it?
Creusa
Then is he acting unfairly in keeping to himself alone a joy he ought to share.
Ion
Ah me! this misfortune sounds so like my own.
Creusa
Thee too, fair sir, thy poor mother misses, I am sure.
Ion
Oh! call me not back to piteous thoughts I had forgotten.
Creusa
I am dumb; proceed with that which touches my inquiry.
Ion
Dost know the one weak point in this thy story?
Creusa
’Tis all weak in that poor lady’s case.
Ion
How should the god declare that which he wishes hidden?
Creusa
He must, if here upon the tripod he sits for all Hellas to seek to.

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