(Perpend the first, the worst of woes that were,

Allotted lyre and song, ye poet-race!)

Thamuris from Oichalia, feasted there

By kingly Eurutos of late, now bound

For Dorion at the uprise broad and bare

Of Mount Pangaios (ore with earth enwound

Glittered beneath his footstep)—marching gay

And glad, Thessalia through, came, robed and crowned,

From triumph on to triumph, 'mid a ray

Of early morn,—came, saw and knew the spot