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Rh Of that Cadmeian maid

The glory and the joy,

Whom Zeus as offspring owns,

Zeus, thundering deep and loud,

Who watchest over famed Italia,

And reign'st o'er all the bays that Deo claims

On fair Eleusis' coast.

Bacchos, who dwell'st in Thebes, the mother-town

Of all thy Bacchant train,

Along Ismenos' stream,

And with the dragon's brood;

Thee, o'er the double peak

Of yonder height the blaze

Of flashing fire beholds,

Where nymphs of Corycos

Go forth in Bacchic dance,

And by the flowery stream of Castaly,

And Thee, the ivied slopes of Nysa's hills,

And vine-clad promontory,

(While words of more than mortal melody

Shout out the well-known name,)