By its banks wend thy way until thou come

To that great fall where from the Bybline hills

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The Neilos pours its pure and holy flood;

And it shall guide thee to Neilotic land,

Three-angled, where, O Io, 'tis decreed

For thee and for thy progeny to found

A far-off colony. And if of this

Aught seem to thee as stammering speech obscure,

Ask yet again and learn it thoroughly: