And riddles of the all immortal eves,—

That still o'er Delphic lawns

Speak as the gods spoke through oracular leaves—

I read with new-born eyes,

Remembering how, a slave,

They buried me, a living sacrifice,

Once in a dead king's grave.

Or, crowned with hyacinth and helichrys,

How, towards the altar in the marble gloom,—

Hearing the magadis