Saw the old structure levelled; when there peered

May's earliest eve-star, high and wide once more

Up towered the new pile perfect as before:

XIII

Seeing that priestesses—and all were such—

Unbuilt and then rebuilt it every May,

Each alike helping—well, if not too much!

For, 'mid their eagerness to outstrip day

And get work done, if any loosed her clutch

And let a single stone drop, straight a prey