His footstep, springing still to bless the dearth,

At bidding of a Mainad. So with me:

For I have drunk this poem, quenched my thirst,

Satisfied heart and soul—yet more remains!

Could we too make a poem? Try at least,

Inside the head, what shape the rose-mists take!

When God Apollon took, for punishment,

A mortal form and sold himself a slave

To King Admetos till a term should end,—

Not only did he make, in servitude,