Notes poured thick and fast through the thin-beaten bronze and the reeds upspringing + 

By the burg of the Graces, the city of fair dance-lawns in the close + 

Of the Nymph of Kephisus, true witnesses they of the dance soft-swinging. + 

If bliss among mortals there be, ’tis not won but with travail-throes. + 

Yet a God may accomplish it even to-day⁠—but there is no fleeing + 

That which of Fate is foredoomed: but surely a time shall be + 

When a Power that smites with a stroke all-sudden, past man’s foreseeing, + 

Shall grant thee a boon unhoped for, yet hold back another from thee. + 