Gone with his Attic ivy home to feast,
Since Aischulos required companionship.
Pour a libation for Euripides!"
When we had sat the heavier silence out—
"Dead and triumphant still!" began reply
To my eye's question. "As he willed, he worked:
And, as he worked, he wanted not, be sure,
Triumph his whole life through, submitting work
To work's right judges, never to the wrong,
To competency, not ineptitude.