Good with bad: such the lot whereto law set the seal.

Now, human of instinct—since Semele's son,

Yet minded divinely—since fathered by Zeus,

With naught Bacchus tampered, undid not things done,

Owned wisdom anterior, would spare wont and use,

Yet change—without shock to old rule—introduce.

Regard how your cavern from crag-tip to base

Frowns sheer, height and depth adamantine, one death!

I rouse with a beam the whole rampart, displace

No splinter—yet see how my flambeau, beneath