While round him, bound with leafed and roseal wreaths,
Mid fountain spray and snowy columns, danced
Ionia’s raven-tressed voluptuous girls.
Minstrel of beauty, love, and vinous joy,
Thy festal spirit yet survives on earth,
Clad in a garment of enduring verse,
The asbestine robe of all-immortal song!
[1] Sappho was an Æolian, but she is commonly included in this cluster of poets.