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CONNUBIAL EQUALITY
Η σοφος, η σοφος ην.
Æschylus: Prometheus.
Oh! wise was he, the first who taught
This lesson of observant thought,
That equal fates alone may dress
The bowers of nuptial happiness;
That never, where ancestral pride
Inflames, or affluence rolls its tide,
Should love's ill-omened bonds entwine
The offspring of an humbler line.
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