Athenai, taught prosperity has wings,

Cages the glad recapture. Demos, see,

From folly's premature decrepitude

Boiled young again, emerges from the stew

Of twenty-five years' trouble, sits and sways,

One brilliance and one balsam,—sways and sits

Monarch of Hellas! ay, and, sage again,

No longer jeopardizes chieftainship,

No longer loves the brutish demagogue

Appointed by a bestial multitude,