| Overcome—O bitter sweetness, |
| Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl— |
| The rich man and his affairs, |
| The fat flocks and the fields’ fatness, |
| Mariners, rough harvesters; |
| Overcome Gods upon Parnassus; |
| Overcome the Empyrean; hurl |
| Heaven and Earth out of their places, |
| That in the same calamity |
| Brother and brother, friend and friend, |
| Family and family, |
| City and city may contend, |
| By that great glory driven wild. |
| Pray I will and sing I must, |
| And yet I weep—Oedipus’ child |
| Descends into the loveless dust. |