The Prometheus Bound

Lo, the earth's bound and limitary land,The Scythian steppe, the waste untrod of men!Look to it now, Hephaestus-thine it is,Thy Sire obeying, this arch-thief to clenchAgainst the steep-down precipice of rock,With stubborn links of adamantine chain.Look thou: thy flower, the gleaming plastic fire,He stole and lent to mortal man-a sinThat gods immortal make him rue today,Lessoned hereby to own th' omnipotenceOf Zeus, and to repent his love to man!