Two with our herald thither we command.
With speed to learn what men possess’d the land.
They went, and kept the wheel’s smooth-beated road
Which to the city drew the mountain wood;
When lo! they met, beside a crystal spring,
The daughter of Antiphates the king;
The damsel they approach, and ask’d what race
The people were? who monarch of the place?
With joy the maid the unwary strangers heard,
And show’d them where the royal dome appear’d.