COLONUS' PRAISE
 
 Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise
 The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies,
 The nightingale that deafens daylight there,
 If daylight ever visit where,
 Unvisited by tempest or by sun,
 Immortal ladies tread the ground
 Dizzy with harmonious sound,
 Semele's lad a gay companion.
 And yonder in the gymnasts' garden thrives
 The self-sown, self-begotten shape that gives
 Athenian intellect its mastery,
 Even the grey-leaved olive-tree
 Miracle-bred out of the living stone;
 Nor accident of peace nor war
 Shall wither that old marvel, for
 The great grey-eyed Athene stareS thereon.
 Who comes into this countty, and has come
 Where golden crocus and narcissus bloom,
 Where the Great Mother, mourning for her daughter
 And beauty-drunken by the water
 Glittering among grey-leaved olive-trees,
 Has plucked a flower and sung her loss;
 Who finds abounding Cephisus
 Has found the loveliest spectacle there is.
 because this country has a pious mind
 And so remembers that when all mankind
 But trod the road, or splashed about the shore,
 Poseidon gave it bit and oar,
 Every Colonus lad or lass discourses
 Of that oar and of that bit;
 Summer and winter, day and night,
 Of horses and horses of the sea, white horsffes.