But to each thing pertaineth measure meet, + 

And best of all it is to know aright + 

The fit time. I, who sail in your great fleet, + 

Yet choose mine own course, sing the battle-might + 

And wisdom of old days, and in the telling + 

Lie not⁠—of heroism’s highways trod + 

By Corinth, and of Sisyphus excelling + 

In cunning counsels even as some God, + 

And of Medea, her who dared defy + 

Her father, chose at her own heart’s behest + 

A bridegroom, and the saviour was thereby + 

Of Argo and the Heroes of the Quest. + 