The fountains are at play,

And Cephissus feeds his river

From their sweet urns, day by day;

The river knows no dearth;

Adown the vale the lapsing waters glide,

And the pure rain of that pellucid tide

Calls the rife beauty from the heart of earth;

While by the banks the Muses’ choral train

Are duly heard—and there Love checks her golden rein.”

EXTANT PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES.