Yet, Lord, not yet have we been bold to render
Him who has come, a suppliant, to our gates."
So the Cyméan spake. Apollo answered:
"Yield ye your suppliant—yield him to the Persians".
Then Aristodicus bethought him further,
And in this fashion craftily he wrought.
All round the temple, in the nooks and crannies
Of carven work made by man's love and labour,
In perfect safety, by Apollo guarded,
The swallows and the sparrows built their nests.