Of the Lord of the Trident gleaming splendid, + 

Whose soul was with love for thy youth overcome, + 

Bare thee, as up through the blue ye ascended, + 

To imperial Zeus’s glory-home, + 

Whither also came in the after-day + 

Ganymedes ravished from earth away + 

In halls celestial the nectar to pour. + 

But when viewless thus from the earth they had caught thee, + 

Nor the questers that far and near had sought thee + 

To the arms of thy mother could thee restore, + 

Then spake some neighbour in envious spite + 

A whispered slander of sin and shame, + 

How that over the boiling water’s might + 

Which hissed in the bronze that bestrode the flame + 

Did they carve thy flesh with the knife, and seethe it, + 

And served at the feast, and⁠—dare lips breathe it?⁠— + 

That the God-guests ate of the same! + 