Fragment from Aeschylus

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