Now it was some whole passion of a play;

Now, peradventure, but a honey-drop

That slipt its comb i' the chorus. If there rose

A star, before I could determine steer

Southward or northward—if a cloud surprised

Heaven, ere I fairly hollaed 'Furl the sail!'—

She had at fingers' end both cloud and star

Some thought that perched there, tame and tuneable,

Fitted with wings, and still, as off it flew,

'So sang Euripides,' she said, 'so sang