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Once an Oracle warned of danger to the King of Thebes |
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For his life and for his child |
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So from the crib he took his new-born son |
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Gave him to a herdsman with orders he should kill him |
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But the herdsman, filled with pity |
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Could not kill the child but left him tied against a tree |
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Found by a peasant who took him to his masters |
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Where he was adopted: Oedipus they named him |
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After many years the King was travelling |
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When his way was blocked by a chariot |
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He ordered him to move away |
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But because he was slow to obey |
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They killed his steed |
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The stranger, enraged, murdered the King |
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The stranger's name was Oedipus |
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He, unaware, had killed his father |
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Little did he know he would soon be King |
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So the prophecy reached fulfilment |
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The warning of the Oracle had had its way. |