Here, stretched within his mountain cave,830

Once Chiron to Achilles gave

The lyre, whose stirring strains attest

The warlike passions of his breast.835

What foreign shore our homeless band invites?

Must we our native country deem

Where bright Carystos' marbles gleam?

Where Chalcis breasts the heaving tide,

And swift Euripus' waters glide?

Perchance unhappy fortune calls840