Thou springest forth valiant;
The clangour swells far as thy direful arms ring.
“All the Immortals in awed hush are bending,
Beautiful, terrible, thy light thou’rt sending
Flashed from thine eyes and thy pitiless spear.
Under thy presence Olympus is groaning,
Earth heaves in terrors, the blue deeps are moaning;
‘Wisdom, the All-Seeing Goddess is here!’
“Now the sea motionless freezes before thee;
Helios, th’ Sun-Lord, draws rein to adore thee;