“True, but the strength of god is mightier still,
And oft, in direst strait,
It lifteth from the lowest depths of ill
Him who, with cloud-veiled eyes, was desperate.”

Source: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC), lines 226–229 (tr. Anna Swanwick)

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