PHOEBUS WITH ADMETUS.

I.

When by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked,

Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God,

Mindful were the ploughmen of who the steer had yoked,

Who: and what a track showed the upturned sod!

Mindful were the shepherds as now the noon severe

Bent a burning eyebrow to brown evetide,

How the rustic flute drew the silver to the sphere,