Asklepios!

To-day the discrown'd gold of my hair is strewn

In the green lap of grasses, my bowed brow

Leans on the good strong shoulder of the earth

Even as a stricken mortal's might, that seeks

His comfortable mother in his grief.

Earth, earth, what flower from seed wilt thou put forth

Fed by the waters of mine eyes, that most

Shoot lightnings? dews wrung from the Sun-god's eyes,

Divinely wrathful, mortally unhappy!