1    The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,
2    Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing
3    The common praise it bears.

4    I shall report,
5    For most it caught me, the celestial habits,
6    Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence
7    Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!
8    How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly
9    It was i' the offering!

10   But of all, the burst
11   And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,
12   Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense.
13   That I was nothing.

14   If the event o' the journey
15   Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--
16   As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,
17   The time is worth the use on't.

18   Great Apollo
19   Turn all to the best! These proclamations,
20   So forcing faults upon Hermione,
21   I little like.

22   The violent carriage of it
23   Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,
24   Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,
25   Shall the contents discover, something rare
26   Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!
27   And gracious be the issue!