Of yawning chaos looses, whose red eyes,

Half human and half bestial, glare

Malignant menace from his secret lair.

Such subter-human guise,

Such fiercely fiendlike eyes,

Arcadian Lycaon. Jove-changed, bore

When mortal hate took on,

At the Olympian frown,

Its fitting shape. The lessons of old lore,

Magic-divested, myth-stripped, still