They thronged the porch,

The lean athletes of truth, trained body and mind,

For their immortal trial. Among them towered

Milon, the soldier-wrestler. His brown limbs

Moved with the panther’s grace, the warrior’s pride;

Milon, who in the Olympic contests won

Crown after crown, but wore them on broad brows

Cut like fine steel for thought; and, in his eyes,

Carried the light of those deep distances

That challenge the spirit of man.