Even with such overmastering might + 

Did unbridled desire o’er the spirit sweep + 

Of Koronis in queenly vesture dight, + 

That she dared in the unblest couch to sleep + 

Of a stranger faring from Arcady. + 

But she ’scaped not the all-beholding eye + 

Of the God⁠—albeit where myriad sheep + 

To his altar at Pytho be led to die + 

Was the Lord of the Temple then⁠—for their lust + 

By the all-divining mind was descried. + 

To his soul’s inner vision did Phoebus trust + 

As it were to a seer enthroned at his side. + 

He knows not delusion, whom neither man + 

Nor God by thought or by action can + 

Deceive or misguide. + 