Wine—then, already, cool in houses cometh—

The perfect man his home perambulating!

Zeus, Zeus Perfecter, these my prayers perfect thou!

—Thy care be—yea—of things thou mayst make perfect!

Cho. Wherefore to me, this fear—

Groundedly stationed here

Fronting my heart, the portent-watcher—flits she?

Wherefore should prophet-play

The uncalled and unpaid lay,

Nor—having spat forth fear, like bad dreams—sits she