For love of thee, 'round Ajax came the gloom

Of madness and of death; for thee, of light

Th' Atarnean's eyeballs widow'd sunk in night,

Him, therefore, shall the muse, by poet's power,

Though mortal make immortal. Glory's hour

Flits not from such: who hand and heart have given

To crown, with honours due, the child of heaven. —G. Burges.


Ariphron. (Book xv. § 63, p. 1122.)

Health! supreme of heavenly powers,