'Neath Propulaia, from Akropolis

By vapory grade and grade, gold all the way,

Step to thy snow-Pnux, mount thy Bema-cloud,

Thunder and lighten thence a Hellas through

That shall be better and more beautiful

And too august for Sparté's foot to spurn!

Chasmed in the crag, again our Theatre

Predominates, one purple: Staghunt-month,

Brings it not Dionusia? Hail, the Three!

Aischulos, Sophokles, Euripides