Duty enjoined you, fact in figment's place,

Throned on no mountain, native to the mind!

Therefore deny yourselves Saperdion, figs

And honey, for the sake of—what I dream,

A-sitting with my legs up!'

"Infamy!

The poet casts in calm his lot with these

Assailants of Apollon! Sworn to serve

Each Grace, the Furies call him minister—

He, who was born for just that roseate world