Pillars the Hero-god set for a world-famed witness to men
Of their voyaging’s limits. Monstrous beasts had he quelled ere then
In the seas, and had tracked to the end the fen-floods sluggishly flowing
Till he came to the uttermost bourne that constrained his homeward going,
And he meted the bounds of earth:—but to what far foreland art bearing
On an alien shore, my soul, thy bark over dim seas faring?
Nay, I bid thee for Aiakus summon the Muse, and for Aiakus’ race;
For the flower of justice adorneth the precept, “The good shall thou praise.”