A great deep cup, with heavenly nectar filled;
The greatest deepest cup in Jove's great house
(For Jove himself had so expressly willed):
He drank of all, ne let one drop be spilled;
Since when, his brain, that had before been dry,
Became the Wellspring of all Poetry.
3.
Homer doth tell, in his abundant verse,
The long laborious travails of the Man;