As that wherewith your eyes we bless,

O wanderers of the Minyæ,

Worn toilers over land and sea?

Orpheus:

Fair as the lightning 'thwart the sky,

As sun-dyed snow upon the high

Untrodden heaps of threatening stone

The eagle looks upon alone,

Oh, fair as the doomed victim's wreath,

Oh, fair as deadly sleep and death,