In the blue glooms, and darting here and there

Checquer the dark and widespread melancholy

With everlasting laughter and bright smiles.

Of me thou hast heard, and of my son Achilles,

By prescient fame renowned first of the Greeks:

He is on this island: for ’twas here I set him

To hide him from his foes, and he was safe

Till thou betray’dst him—for unwittingly

That hast thou done to-day. The seeming pedlar,

To whom thou leddest Pyrrha, was Ulysses,