Covet not thou, O my soul, to live + 

The Immortals’ life! Let us use as we may + 

The means that Fate to our hands shall give. + 

Yet, if Cheiron the wise in his cave this day + 

Dwelt, and our honey-sweet songs might lay + 

On his spirit a spell that his will might bend, + 

I had won on him then some healer to send + 

To deliver from feverous pains my friend, + 

Such an one as Asklepius Apollo’s son. + 

O’er Ionian waters voyaging + 

Oh then had I reached Arethusa’s spring, + 

And to Etna’s ruler, mine host, had I gone, + 