For not by nature was this man dowered + 

With Orion’s giant height; + 

Mean was he to outward showing, + 

But with iron-heavy might + 

In the grapple his foe he overpowered. + 

So of old for Antaius’ o’erthrowing + 

To his dwelling in Libya’s corn-land came a man low-statured, a hero who bore + 

A spirit unflinching in conflict-strain, + 

A scion of Thebes whose wrestling-grip should for ever stay him from roofing o’er + 

With the skulls of strangers Poseidon’s fane, + 