Oh Madam, do reject such needless fear.
Look with an easier eye on your mistake.
You love. We cannot conquer destiny.
You were drawn on by fatal charm. Is that
something unheard of? Do you think that Love
has triumphed over you, and you alone?
Frailty is only natural to us
poor human beings. You are mortal,so
to a poor mortal’s lot submit. You fight
against a fate imposed since time began.
The Gods themselves, even the Olympian Gods
who with so great a noise reprove our crimes,
have sometimes burned with these forbidden fires.
Look with an easier eye on your mistake.
You love. We cannot conquer destiny.
You were drawn on by fatal charm. Is that
something unheard of? Do you think that Love
has triumphed over you, and you alone?
Frailty is only natural to us
poor human beings. You are mortal,so
to a poor mortal’s lot submit. You fight
against a fate imposed since time began.
The Gods themselves, even the Olympian Gods
who with so great a noise reprove our crimes,
have sometimes burned with these forbidden fires.
Phèdre
