Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Crete (Candia), the Island | | Crete | | William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
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HIPPOLYTA. I was with Hercules, and Cadmus, once, | |
| When in a wood of Crete they bay’d the bear | |
| With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear | |
| Such gallant chiding; for, besides the groves, | |
| The skies, the fountains, every region near | 5 |
| Seem’d all one mutual cry: I never heard | |
| So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. | |
| THESEUS. My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, | |
| So flew’d, so sanded; and their heads are hung | |
| With ears that sweep away the morning dew; | 10 |
| Crook-kneed, and dew-lapp’d like Thessalian bulls; | |
| Slow in pursuit, but match’d in mouth like bells, | |
| Each under each. A cry more tunable | |
| Was never halloo’d to, nor cheer’d with horn, | |
| In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly: | 15 |
| Judge, when you hear. | | | | |
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