And in the pool of darkling purple hue
Plunge thou the woe that comes in swarthy barque.
Antistrophe I
Look on the women's cause;
Recall the ancient tale,
Of one whom Thou did'st love in time of old,
The mother of our race:
Remember it, O Thou
Who did'st on Io lay thy mystic touch.
We boast that we are come