Cos from its mother's arms her babe received,

Its destined nursery, on its natal day:

'Twas there Antigonè's daughter in her pangs

Cried to the goddess that could bid them cease:

Who soon was at her side, and lo! her limbs

Forgat their anguish, and a child was born

Fair, its sire's self. Cos saw, and shouted loud;

Handled the babe all tenderly, and spake:

"Wake, babe, to bliss: prize me, as Phoebus doth

His azure-spherèd Delos: grace the hill