"Come! come! come!—issue from thy cavern!
"O swift one, who runneth without feet, captor who seizeth without hand!
"Sinuous as the rivers, orbicular as the sun, black, with spots of gold, like the firmament star-besprinkled! Like unto the intertwinings of the vine, and the circumvolutions of entrails!
"Unengendered! eater of earth! immortally young! unfailing perspicacious! honored at Epidaurus! Kindly to man! thou who didst heal King Ptolemy, and the warriors, of Moses, and Glaucus, son of Minos!
"Come! come! come!—issue from thy cavern!"
All (repeat):
"Come! come! come!—issue from thy cavern!"
(Nevertheless, nothing yet appears.)
"Why? What aileth him?"