As wild as when she echoed the despair,

Dishevel-haired, of maidens, wailing borne,—

Athenian tribute,—to that King of Crete,

Great Minos, when the Minotaur they saw

Grim, crouching in his labyrinth of stone.


DIONYSOS

"Io! Bacchus! Bacchus! Io! Io!

O Dionysos! Dionysos! ivy-crowned!