Τὸ καλῶς δ ̓ ἔχον πόλει πάλαισμα I will never implore the Deity to slacken that avenging effort which Edipus Tyrannus, 879, 880. NEW-YORK: M. W. DODD, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL. MDCCCXLII. THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1842, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. University Press, To THE MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE, ON WHOM DEVOLVES THE CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT, This Volume IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED. Fit retribution, by the moral code Determined, lies beyond the State's embrace, Crime might lie better hid. And should the change Pursuit and evidence so far must fail, And, guilt escaping, Passion then might plead In angry spirits for her old free range, And the wild justice of Revenge prevail. WORDSWORTH. Εἰ μοι ξυνείη φέροντι μοῖρα τὰν εύσεπτον ἁγνείαν λόγων πατὴρ μόνος, ουδέ νιν θνατὰ CHORUS IN EDIPUS TYRANNUS. TRANSLATION. May the Divine Providence assist us to guard inviolate the awful sanctity of every word and deed, concerning which laws of a lofty clime are established; laws born in the ethereal sky, Heaven alone being their author; nor did ever mortal nature beget them, nor will ever oblivion lull them to sleep. In these God is great, nor ever decays or changes. |