Then welcomed Aphrodite silver-footed + 

Her Delian guest, and touched with fingers light + 

The car a God had fashioned starry-bright; + 

And o’er their bridal couch, the rapture-fruited, + 

The loveliness of shamefastness down-shedding + 

In bonds of mutual love she linked the twain, + 

The Archer-god unto the daughter wedding + 

Of Hypseus wide-dominioned, who did reign + 

In that day o’er the haughty Lapith nation, + 

A hero-son of the third generation + 

Of Ocean’s Lord. Him mid the mountain-dells + 

World-famed where mighty Pindus heavenward swells, + 

The child of Earth, Kreusa Fountain-maiden, + 

Bare to Peneius’ bed with sweetness laden. + 