“O Thetis of the flowing robe, beloved And honored, what has brought thee to our home Thou dost not often visit us. Come in, That I may pay the honors due a guest.”

So the bright goddess spake, and led the way, And seated Thetis on a sumptuous throne, With silver studs divinely wrought, and placed A footstool, and called out to Vulcan thus: “Come, Vulcan; Thetis here hath need of thee.”