for

For thee shall there be right among the blessed;

Speak out for the last time, when men shall be

Which things it is not right for me to mention,

And Zeus and Hermes (king). And as for thee,

For thy pride thou shalt pay as many things

No more for thee shall flow luxurious drink . . .

For there shall come a Persian on thy dale,

So that there shall remain for wretched mortals

Alas, alas for thee, unhappy heart!

Alas, alas for thee, O Lycia;

And there shall be for Phrygia fearful wrath

Because of sorrow for which Rhea came,

Applause for his sweet Songs, shall put to death

Abhor; for he slew many and laid hands

For when this man appeared the whole creation

Hating thy soil; for thou didst have desire

For sorcery, adulteries were with thee

And the river Tiber shall lament for thee,

The double city, be for ages silent,

And thou shalt make atonement for all things

For thee? Thou shalt not even to the time

Filled with much blood; for evil things

Together fear; for when with these the course

Which is ill thee; for when with pliant threads

As it hath been appointed. For to him

The flesh of parents. For unto all men

By evil fates surrounded, for mankind

Of evils, and for men a great curse, who

Of mortals wished for thee? Who has not been

Speech dripping honey, fair drink for all men,

And grief shall come in that day. For mankind

Their trophies for an age of evil men.

Flower longed for by him only, goodly light

Shall flow for all the just; for in one God,

Shall flow for all the just; for in one God,

Alas, alas for thee, O Sardis; and alas

For Trallis much beloved; alas, alas,

And for her temple search which is no more.

Shall then be great woe; for the Thunderer

For Smyrna also, weeping her Lycurgus,

Having a sign, shall know for what they toiled.

Alas for thee, cease from thy revelry.

For thou, O God, in kindness didst regard

Even like a river for the swimming fish.

With the Pisidians, all equipped for war

And that for whose sake he himself was slain

For emulation's sake. And from the West

For fire shall rain down from the heavenly plains

For in thee mother with her child did hold

Of revelry; for by thee virgin maids

Shall care no longer for the fire divine

By the soul hoped for and the body itself.

For not without the rites of burial

For there came from the heavenly plains a man,

A sight that has been longed for. Rising sun

For there are then no longer fearful things

For wretched mortals, nor adulteries

Alas, alas for thee, O Babylon,

For golden throne and golden sandal famed,

For on account of thy supremacy,

Phœnicia, dreadful wrath remains for thee,

And the dire race shall wail for myriad things

For it beheld the wickedness unclean

May all occur. For they shall overthrow

For long fire-flames rebelled against the Sun;

Cancer remained not, for he feared Orion;

And he shall come for judgement and persuade

But for thee only, Sodomitic land,

Are evil woes laid up; for thou thyself

This shall bring evil woes about for thee.

O RHODES, thou art unhappy; for first thee,

Rich Egypt ever caring for her corn,

Shall drive out Apis, not the god for men.

An axle in the midst, and place for men

Shall all things come to pass. For God himself

Because of lawless deeds. For her own son

Ilias shall piteously complete for all

For a great fearful fire hangs over thee.

For, made a widow by the feebleness

And for him three towers did the mighty heaven

Do thou thus cry: "I do not long for wealth;

With chill ice thou shalt for an outrage pay,

And now for thee, O wretched Syria,

For you shall trumpet sound an evil sound

Alas, alas for thee, thou wretched one;

For there shall be such raging fire on earth

For age-long years, they shall know that God's law

Much suffering who for gain shall prophesy

The sad one. For how many evil things

Was cared for; and I, all-unfaithful, brought

For I shall not live always, but a time

Of evil shall destroy me, when for me

For lying with my father a dear son

For thus shall I live and fix eyes on heaven.

Make laws for peoples and subject all things.

For there shall be love of deceitful gold

And silver; for than these did mortals choose

To all those that have gold; for ages thus

For men an equal light, but, bought with gold,

For poor men have prepared another world.