Neither life by law unblest,
Nor by tyrant yoke opprest,
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Sanction thou ;-
All extremes the gods detest;
They the golden mean, I trow,
Stamp with might. The truth I speak
Weighty is. Defiant scorn
Is from godless folly born;
While from inward health doth flow,
Eumenides. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.
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