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from PARLEYINGS WITH
CERTAIN PEOPLE OF
IMPORTANCE IN THEIR
DAY (1887)

Apollo and the Fates

A Prologue

(Hymn. in Mercurium, v. 559. Eumenides, vv. 693-4, 697-8.
Alcestis, vv. 12, 33)

Apollo [From above.

Flame at my footfall, Parnassus! Apollo,°
Breaking a-blaze on thy topmost peak,
Burns thence, down to the depths--dread hollow--
Haunt of the Dire Ones. Haste! They wreak°
Wrath on Admetus whose respite I seek.

The Fates [Below. Darkness.

Dragonwise couched in the womb of our Mother,°
Coiled at thy nourishing heart's core, Night!
Dominant Dreads, we, one by the other,
Deal to each mortal his dole of light

On earth--the upper, the glad, the bright. 10

Clotho

Even so: thus from my loaded spindle
Plucking a pinch of the fleece, lo, 'Birth'
Brays from my bronze lip: life I kindle:
Look, 'tis a man! go, measure on earth
The minute thy portion, whatever its worth!

-540-

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Publication Information: Book Title: Robert Browning. Contributors: Adam Roberts - editor, Robert Browning - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1997. Page Number: 540.
    
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