Hurled from the hands of Love, the boy with Zeus for sire.

II

Idly, how idly, by the Alpheian river

And in the Pythian shrines of Phœbus, quiver

Blood-offerings from the bull, which Hellas heaps:

While Love we worship not—the Lord of men!

Worship not him, the very key who keeps

Of Aphrodité, when

She closes up her dearest chamber-portals:

—Love, when he comes to mortals,