The lament that she heard from the awful maids’ snake-heads outshrieking, + 

As it poured from their lips forth laden with bitterest anguish of grief, + 

When Perseus had smitten the third, their sister, with bronze death-wreaking, + 

And bare thence doom to Seriphus’ island-folk and their chief. + 

Yea, and the wondrous daughters of Phorkys he spoiled of vision, + 

And bitter for Polydektes his bridal-gift he made, + 

Bitter his mother’s thraldom, her spousals’ enforced decision, + 

With the head of Medusa the weirdly beautiful, shorn by the blade + 