For over his winged poet-craft and its feigning + 

Hath some strange glamour of majesty brooded; + 

And beguiled by his inspiration’s constraining + 

Through his realm of faery lost we stray. + 

Ah, the general throng of mortals aye + 

Are blinded of heart! Were their eyes not hooded + 

From discerning the truth, never Aias the strong, + 

For the armour wroth, as is told in song, + 

Had thrust through his heart the sword smooth-bright⁠— + 

Aias, the mightiest man in fight, + 

Save Achilles, of all that to Ilium fared + 

By the west-wind wafted over the tide + 

With breath unswerving, to rescue the bride + 

Of Menelaus the golden-haired. + 