Thus as he slumbered in the gloom of night, + 

The Maid of the Dark Aegis seemed to say. + 

Upleaping, on his feet he stood upright, + 

And seized the marvel that beside him lay. + 

Then joyously to Corinth’s seer he wended, + 

And to the son of Koiranus he showed + 

How that strange venture of the night had ended, + 

How, trusting all the prophet did forebode, + 

He laid him down to sleep all through the night + 

Upon the altar in Athene’s fane; + 

How she, the Child of Him whose lance of light + 

Is levin, with her own hands did she deign + 