The man who rightly acts without coercion <br />Will not be grieved, can never wholly sink in wretchedness; <br />While the lawless criminal is forcibly dragged under <br />In the current of time when from the shattered mast <br />The elements rip down his sails. <br />He shouts, there is no ear to hear him <br />Struggling, hopeless, at the maelstrom's center. <br />Gods laugh at the transgressor now, <br />Watching him, his pride now wrecked, <br />Caught in desperation's shackles. <br />He flees the rocks in vain; <br />His fortunes smash on retribution's reef <br />And, unmourned, he is engulfed.<br /><br />Aeschylus<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fragment-from-aeschylus/
