The other, that in the recesses most holy + 

Of the bride-bower of Zeus did he make essay + 

Of the Queen of Heaven! Meet is it to know + 

Our mortality’s limits, meet to forego + 

The lawless loves that their victim throw + 

Into gulfs of destruction. Such was his folly; + 

For with nought but a cloud it was that he lay, + 

Unknowing all, to his own confusion + 

Lured on by a sweetly-beckoning lie; + 

For the cloud-wrought image the semblance bare + 

Of Kronos’ Child, Heaven’s fairest fair; + 

For the hands of Zeus had fashioned the snare, + 

The beautiful bane, for his soul’s delusion. + 

So he compassed his own dire doom thereby, + 