With useless endeavour
Forever, forever,
Is Sisyphus rolling
His stone up the mountain!


The Masque of Pandora, Chorus of the Eumenides, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!