Teasing the god to sing them something new,
Till in this cave they found the lady lone,
Sitting upon a seat of emerald stone."
[A solo violin has a wide-arched phrase against sweeping harp arpeggios; a staccato passage in the wood-wind introduces a lyric theme in the strings—an expansion of the one with which the tone-poem opened.]
(D)
"And every nymph of stream and spreading tree,
And every shepherdess of Ocean's flocks,
Who drives her white waves over the green sea;
And Ocean, with the brine on his gray locks,