You shall find food, drink, odor, all at once;

Cool leaves to bind about an aching brow,

And, never much away, the nightingale.

Sing them a strophe, with the turn-again,

Down to the verse that ends all, proverb-like,

And save us, thou Balaustion, bless the name!"

But I cried, "Brother Greek! better than so,—

Save us, and I have courage to recite

The main of a whole play from first to last;

That strangest, saddest, sweetest song of his,