5.None shall with him compare, howe'er war-doughty a hero,Whenas the Phrygian rills flow deep with bloodshed of Teucer,And beleaguering the walls of Troy with longest of warfareHe shall the works lay low, third heir of Pelops the perjured.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

6.His be the derring-do and deeds of valour egregious,Often mothers shall own at funeral-rites of their children,What time their hoary hairs from head in ashes are loosened,And wi' their hands infirm thay smite their bosoms loose duggèd.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

7.For as the toiling hind bestrewing denseness of corn-stalksUnder the broiling sun mows grain-fields yellow to harvest,So shall his baneful brand strew earth with corpses of Troy-born.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

8.Aye to his valorous worth attest shall wave of ScamanderWhich unto Hellè-Sea fast flowing ever dischargeth,Straiter whose course shall grow by up-heaped barrage of corpses,While in his depths runs warm his stream with slaughter commingled.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

9.Witness in fine shall be the victim rendered to death-stroke,Whenas the earthern tomb on lofty tumulus buildedShall of the stricken maid receive limbs white as the snow-flake.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

10.For when at last shall Fors to weary Achaians her fiatDeal, of Dardanus-town to burst Neptunian fetters,Then shall the high-reared tomb stand bathed with Polyxena's life-blood,Who, as the victim doomed to fall by the double-edged falchion,Forward wi' hams relaxt shall smite a body beheaded.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

11.Wherefore arise, ye pair, conjoin loves ardently longed-for,Now doth the groom receive with happiest omen his goddess,Now let the bride at length to her yearning spouse be delivered.Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, 0 Spindles.

12.Neither the nurse who comes at dawn to visit her nursling