Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long;

There flowery hill Hymethus with the sound

Of bees’ industrious murmur, oft invites

To studious musing;——————

——————Within the walls then view

The schools of ancient sages; his who bred

Great Alexander to subdue the world.

Thence what the lofty, grave tragedians taught,

High actions and high passions best describing.

Thence to the famous orators repair,