Or at morning, in some stoa,

Heard the Sage, as in his toils

He immeshed the wordy sophists

Come to dazzle from the Isles.

In the house of Thespis sitting,

On upæthric seats of stone,

Saw the tribes of birds collected

In a kingdom of their own;

In a quaint ethereal city,

Full of many-tinted plumes,