That intolerable curse unto Hellas! But the night + 

Of terror hath departed, and the crushing load of care + 

Is lifted. Yet ’tis better evermore to keep in sight + 

The perils that be waiting in the path whereon we fare. + 

For Time is dogging mortals’ steps, with treacherous feet on-stealing, + 

And tangling all the ways of life. Yet even here is healing + 

For such as have but freedom. Let us still to hope be clinging! + 

In Thebe seven-gated nursed, the Graces’ flowers of singing + 

I needs must give Aegina; for Asopus’ daughters twain + 

Found favour in the sight of Zeus who over all doth reign. + 

And one of these by lovely-flowered Dirke’s fair demesne + 

He caused to dwell, to be the chariot-loving city’s queen. + 