So Destiny, she who the line of the fathers of Theron hath guided + 

To happiness, yet for their god-given bliss hath also provided + 

In its season a bitter reverse, + 

Since the hour when met in his journeying Laïus was, and killed + 

By his doom-driven son, and the word that from Pytho went forth was fulfilled, + 

The old-time prophecy-curse. + 