Over all men alike the dark surge sweepeth + 

Of Hades, on fameless heads hath descended + 

And on men of renown: but honour keepeth + 

Their memories green whose after-fame + 

God causeth to wax ever fairer, the name + 

Of battle-helpers whose days are ended, + 

Even such as in old time journeyed on + 

Unto wide-bosomed earth’s great navel-stone. + 

So buried ’neath Pytho’s floor doth lie + 

Neoptolemus, there foredoomed to die + 

When Priam’s town had been sacked by his hand, + 

Where also the Danaans travailed sore. + 

But he missed on the home-voyage Skyros’ shore; + 

So wandering came they to Ephyre-land. + 