Apollo Musagetes.
“The Patron of Music.”
“To the sun-god all our hearts and lyres,
By day, by night, belong;
And the breath we draw from his living fires
We give him back in song.”
—Moore.
STORY.
THE LEADER OF THE MUSES.
“Whom all the Muses loved, not one alone;—
Into his hand they put the lyre of gold,
And crowned with sacred laurel at their fount,