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Ion (789-803b)

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Ah me! my fate, it seems, has doomed me to a childless
life, and all forlorn am I to dwell in ray halls, without an heir.
Old Servant
To whom did the oracle refer? whom did our poor ladys husband meet? how and where did he see him?
Chorus
Dear mistress mine, dost know that youth
that was sweeping yonder shrine? He is that son.
Creusa
Oh! for wings to cleave the liquid air beyond the land of Hellas, away to the western stars, so keen the anguish of my soul, my friends!
Old Servant
Dost know the name his father gave to him, or is that left as yet unsettled and unsaid?
Chorus
He called him Ion, because he was the first to cross his path.
Old Servant
Who is his mother?
Chorus
That I cannot say. But,—to tell thee all I know, old sir,—

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