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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
Made themselves wings to fly about the world,—Not one such man was helped so at his needAs certain few that (wisest they of all)Had, at first summons, oped heart, flung door wideAt the new knocking of Euripides,Nor drawn the bolt with who cried "Decadence!And, after Sophokles, be nature dumb!"Such,—and I see in it God Bacchos' boonTo souls that recognized his latest child,He who himself, born latest of the Gods,Was stoutly held impostor by mankind,—Such were in safety: any who could speakA chorus to the end, or prologize,Roll out a rhesis, wield some golden lengthStiffened by wisdom out into a line.Or thrust and parry in bright monostich,Teaching Euripides to Syracuse—Any such happy man had prompt reward:
