Which bettered Hellas,—beyond graven gold

Or gem-indenture, sung by Phoibos' self

And saved in Kunthia's mountain treasure-house—

Ere you, man, moralist, were youth or boy?

—Not praise which, in the proffer, mocks the praised

By sly admixture of the blameworthy

And enforced coupling of base fellowship,—

Not blame which gloats the while it frowning laughs,

'Allow one glance on horrors—laughable!'—

This man's entire of heart and soul, discharged