ARGONAUTAE.
ACTUS PRIMUS.
PEwias. Jason. Semi-chorus of Iolchian Men.
Semi-chorus of Iolchian Women.
Scene: Zhe Throne-chamber of Kinc PELs.
SEMI-CHORUS OF MEN.
The prophecies are spoken in vain,
The auguries vainly cast,
Since twenty years of joyous reign
In peace are overpast;
And those who cursed our King’s desires
Are branded in the brow for liars.
SEMI-CHORUS OF WOMEN.
We heard the aged prophet speak
The doom of woe and fear.
We wait with blanched and icy cheek
The one-and-twentieth year:
For Justice lies, as seeds lie, dead,
But lifts at last a Gorgon head!
MEN.
What fear can reach our Thessaly?
What war disturb our peace?