What Power overshadowing lured them forth on the sea-track long? + 

What peril to that Quest bound them with clamps as of adamant strong? + 

A god-given oracle boded that Pelias should die + 

By the hands of Aiolus’ children, or their merciless subtlety. + 

Yea, a prophecy came to him chilling the heart of the crafty-souled; + 

From the mid-stone of Earth-mother vestured with trees was the word outrolled: + 

“Above all things else beware thou with uttermost heed,” said the God, + 

“Of the man that from highland homesteads with single sandal shod + 

Unto far-renowned lolkos of the sunny plains shall fare, + 

Be he a man of thy country, or stranger from otherwhere.” + 