But the mount of song, when they died away,
Still rose, with its temple, free!
And the Pæan swell’d ere long,
Io Pæan! from the fane;
Io Pæan! for the war-array
On the crown’d Parnassus riven that day!
—Thou shalt rise as free, thou mount of song!
With thy bounding streams again.
[246] See the account cited from Herodotus, in Mitford’s Greece.