Thy labors how many and mighty! Thy hand

Has the terrible lion of Nemea felt,830

The fleet-footed hind, and the ravaging boar

That Arcadia feared. Loud bellowed the bull

When torn from the fields of Crete;

Thou didst conquer the Hydra, which fed on destruction,835

And severed the last of its multiplied heads.

The dread giant, Geryon, three monsters in one,

Fell slain with one blow of thy crashing club;

But his oxen, the famous Hesperian herds,