“Now therefore of this my story the sum and the substance ye know; + 

And I pray you, O kindly burghers, to me do ye plainly show + 

The dwelling wherein my fathers, lords of white steeds, abode; + 

For the feet of a son of Aison shall surely not have trode + 

Upon alien soil in the homeland, the land I claim for mine! + 

Jason my name is: the Centaur named me with lips divine.” + 

Then his father’s eyes, as he entered the old home, knew him again, + 

And gushed from his aged eyelids the tears like summer rain; + 

For his spirit rejoiced within him when he beheld that son, + 

The chief est among ten thousand, the goodliest-moulded one. + 