Beneath that current lazy and serene,

In whose unfathomable waters lie

The slumbering forms of horrors that have been

In Hades, and in Ocean, Earth, and Sky—

With long forgotten curse and murder old,

Steep that lost daughter’s errors manifold.

Once more for you an hallowed flame there burns.

Once more for you an hallowed stream there flows;

Despise not our lustrations of your urns,

Nor let unhoused Manes be our foes!