“Then shrieked Harmonia, ‘Stay, my Cadmus, stay!

Glide not in such a monstrous shape away!

Destruction, like impetuous waves, rolls on.

Where are thy feet, thy legs, thy shoulders, gone?

Changed is thy visage, changed is all thy frame⁠—

Cadmus is only Cadmus now in name.

Ye Gods! my Cadmus to himself restore.