“The spirits of men run swiftly, too swiftly they run on the path + 

Of the wages of treachery, rather than guerdons that justice hath; + 

Yet their lives glide on to the reckoning stern that for all doth remain. + 

But thee and me it behoveth by law our passions to rein, + 

And for days to come to be weaving the web of our well-being so. + 

One mother had our forefathers⁠—this I would say dost thou know⁠— + 

Rash-hearted Salmoneus and Kretheus; and we who in these days see + 

Helios’ majesty golden, of the third generation are we. + 

Now if there arise black hatred ’twixt mortals by blood akin. + 

Far off stand the Destiny-weavers, to see not the shame and the sin. + 