No cloud was seen; on blue and craggy Ida

The hot noon lay, and on the plain’s enamel;

Cool, in his bed, alone, the swift Scamander.

“Why should I haste?” said young and rosy Hylas:

“The seas were rough, and long the way from Colchis.

Beneath the snow-white awning slumbers Jason,

Pillowed upon his tame Thessalian panther;

The shields are piled, the listless oars suspended

On the black thwarts, and all the hairy bondsmen

Doze on the benches. They may wait for water,