How could we moderns miss the heart o' the labyrinth

Perversely all these years, permit the Greek seclude

His secret till to-day? And here 's another feud

Now happily composed: inspect this quartet-score!

Got long past melody, no word has Music more

To say to mortal man! But is the bard to be

Behindhand? Here 's his book, and now perhaps you see

At length what poetry can do!

CXVII

Why, that 's stability