Drest out in all her festival attire

In honour of the universal Sire

Whom Antioch as for her own to-day

Propitiates. Hark, the music!—Speed, good lads,

Or you will be too late. Ah, needless caution!

Ev’n now already half way down the hill,

Spurr’d by the very blood within their veins,

They catch up others, who catching from them

The fire they re-inflame, the flying troop

Consuming fast to distance in a cloud