His feet with yellow sandals bound;

And with that hand which bore but now

The mighty club, he wound the thread

Which from his mistress' spindle fell.

The sight all Persia saw, and they325

Who dwell in Lydia's fertile realm—

The savage lion's skin laid by,

And on those shoulders, once the prop

For heaven's vast dome, a gauzy cloak

Of Tyrian manufacture spread.