Dropt from the zenith like a falling star

On Lemnos, the Ægean isle: this they relate,

Erring.’

——‘But chief the spacious hall

Thick swarm’d, both on the ground and in the air,

Brush’d with the hiss of rustling wings. As bees

In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides,

Pour forth their populous youth about the hive

In clusters; they among fresh dews and flow’rs

Fly to and fro: or on the smoothed plank,