But now when her kinsmen had laid the maid + 

In the midst of the pinewood walls of the pyre, + 

And when round about her upleaping played + 

The splendour-light of the Lord of Fire, + 

Spake Apollo: “I will not by death so dire + 

Endure that mine own son also should die + 

In the flames wherein doth his mother lie!” + 

He spake, and at one stride stood thereby, + 

And he caught up the child from the corse, and sprang + 

The flames asunder. That babe he brought + 

To Magnesia’s Centaur, by him to be taught + 

To heal each mortal malady’s pang. + 