Who worked thee all the good,

Away from thee,—destroyest in a mood

Of madness him, to death whom pipings dance!

There goes she, in her chariot—groans, her brood—

And gives her team the goad, as though adrift

For doom, Night's Gorgon, Madness, she whose glance

Turns man to marble! with what hissings lift

Their hundred heads the snakes, her head's inheritance!

Quick has the god changed fortune: through their sire

Quick will the children, that he saved, expire!