Looked and moaned, and urged him for love's sake, for sweet life's

To abandon his mad hunger, and avert the calamity.

But he, vehement, passionate, called out: 'Let me show I am what I

That the taunts I hear be silenced: I am stung with their

Only, Thou, my Father, Thou tell how aloft the revolving wheels,

How aloft the cleaving horse-crests I may guide peremptorily,

Till I drink the shadows, fire-hot, like a flower celestial,

And my fellows see me curbing the fierce steeds, the dear dew-