Boldly and bear away to softer life;

Hence deified as sisters they were bound

Together in a never-dying choir; 160

Who with their Hippocrene and grottoed fount

Of Castaly, attest that Woman’s heart

Was in the limpid age of this stained world

The most assured seat of [ ]

And new-born waters, deemed the happiest source 165

Of inspiration for the conscious lyre.

Lured by the crystal element in times