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202 When he sleepeth on the rock, — Thou wilt shelter with thy guardian wing In the forest's midnight hour.

Him whom thou ne'er leavest, Genius, Thou wilt wrap up warmly In the snow-drift; Toward the warmth approach the Muses, Toward the warmth approach the Graces.

Ye Muses, hover round me! Ye Graces also! That is water, that is earth, And the son of water and of earth Over which I wander, like the gods.

Ye are pure, like the heart of the water, Ye are pure like the marrow of earth, Hov'ring round me, while I hover Over water, o'er the earth, like the gods.

Shall he, then, return, The small, the dark, the fiery peasant? Shall he, then, return, awaiting Only thy gifts, O Father Bromius, And brightly gleaming, warm the spreading fire? Return with joy? And I, whom ye attended, Ye Muses and ye Graces, Whom all awaits that ye. Ye Muses and ye Graces, Of circling bliss in life Have glorified—shall I Return dejected?