His harnessed hands were lifted for the fray.

Twice and again I sing the manly sons

Of Leda, those Twin Brethren, Sparta's own:

Who shield the soldier on the deadly scarp,

The horse wild-plunging o'er the crimson field,

The ship that, disregarding in her pride

Star-set and star-rise, meets disastrous gales:—

Such gales as pile the billows mountain-high,

E'en at their own wild will, round stem or stern:

Dash o'er the hold, the timbers rive in twain,