Who dwelleth in Parnassia's cavern vast,

[*]Calling on her who still

[*]Is guileful without guile,

[*]Halting of foot and tarrying over-long:

The will of Gods is strangely overruled;

It may not help the vile;[[458]]

'Tis meet to adore the Power that rules in Heaven:

At last we see the light.

Antistrophe II

[*]Now is the bit that curbed the slaves ta'en off:[[459]]