As he slew the deer, unholpen of hounds or the net’s hidden guile; + 

For by fleetness of foot he outran them. This tale told long erewhile + 

I recall, how that Jason was reared in the cave of the rock-rib rafter + 

By deep-thoughted Cheiron, who nurtured Asklepius thereafter, + 

And taught how by herbs and the pain-soothing hand is disease resisted, + 

And who won for Peleus the Daughter of Nereus, the ivory-wristed, + 

And fostered for her that goodliest man of men, their son, + 

And trained up his soul unto greatness by chivalry alone, + 