They fell like dew upon the flowers;

Then all the air grew strangely sweet!

And thus came dainty Baby Bell

Into this world of ours. (1854.)

Bacchan'tes (3 syl.), priestesses of Bacchus.

Round about him

Bacchus

fair Bacchantês,

Bearing cymbals, flutes, and thyrses,

Wild from Naxian groves, or Zantê's