Argument—Itys, nurtured by centaurs, meets and falls in love with Helen of Troy, before her marriage with Menelaus. What befell therefrom.

Slowly blanch-handed Dawn, eyes half-awake,

Upraised magnificent the silver urn,

Heaped with white roses at the trembling lip,

Flowers that burn with crystalline accord

And die not ever. Like a pulsing heart

Beat from within against the fire-loud verge

A milky vast transparency of light

Heavy with drowning stars; a swimming void Morning.

Of august ether, formless as the cloud,