Juno then her chase arrested,
And the gad-fly stung no more;
On swam Io, unmolested,
Till she reached the Asian shore,
Hence that strait, the poets tell us,
Took the name it bears till now,
"Bosporus," in tongue of Hellas,
Meaning "Passage of the Cow."
Age on age has since passed over
Those wild waters in their flow—