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Updated: May 3, 2025
And, taking his lyre, he sang: What floods of lavish splendour The lofty sun doth pour! What else can Heaven render? What room hath she for more? Yet shall his course be shortly done, And after his declining The skies that held a single Sun With thousands shall be shining. It was not long ere the gods began to find their way to Prometheus's earthly paradise, and who came once came again.
He is said to have been the great friend of mankind, and was chained to a rock on Mount Caucasus because he stole fire from heaven and gave it as a gift to the sons of man. While in chains an eagle was sent by Jupiter daily to feed on Prometheus's liver, which Jupiter made to grow again each night.
It was then that Heracles was given arms by the gods the sword of Hermes, the bow of Apollo, the shield made by Hephaestus; it was then that Heracles joined the Argonauts and journeyed with them to the edge of the Caucasus, where, slaying the vulture that preyed upon Prometheus's liver, he, at the will of Zeus, liberated the Titan.
"Would that I were with my sister Circe in her fairy island in the West, far away from sore temptation, and thoughts which tear the heart! But if it must be so for why should you die? I have an ointment here; I made it from the magic ice flower which sprang from Prometheus's wound, above the clouds on Caucasus, in the dreary fields of snow.
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