I + 

One morn before me were three figures seen, + 

With bowed necks, and joined hands, side-faced; + 

And one behind the other stepp’d serene, + 

In placid sandals, and in white robes graced; + 

They pass’d, like figures on a marble urn, + 

When shifted round to see the other side; + 

They came again; as when the urn once more + 

Is shifted round, the first seen shades return; + 

And they were strange to me, as may betide + 

With vases, to one deep in Phidian lore. + 