Some bird was wheeling through the air,1045

To that sweet music swift he fell

On drooping wings. The mountains came:

Rough Athos with its Centaur herd,

And Rhodope, its drifted snows

Loosed by the magic of that song,1050

Stood by to hear. The Dryads left

The shelter of their oaken trunks

And gathered round the tuneful bard.

The beasts came, too, and with them came1055