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Coils betwixt the rock,

slithering din abounds

Lanerly in the dark

Half-nymph maiden, fair as dawn

Glorious goddess and terrible matron

The horror, the mad Echidna

Bearing the children of Typhaon

Twisted in glory, serpentine but beautiful

Mother of monsters, all alone in the dark!

Silence surrounds, nothing but pain

All alone in the darkness

and completely insane!

Half-nymph maiden, fair as dawn

Glorious goddess and terrible matron

The horror, the mad Echidna

Bearing the children of Typhaon

Nothing interrupts poor Echidna

In her sad gluttony

Sire of the damned brood,

Born alive in the silent dark

Cerberus! Orthus! Hydra, Sphinx-

A thousand sons, a thousand men lost!

To the children of poor, mad Echidna

Mother of monsters, all alone in the dark!