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Pygmalion

By Thomas Woolner

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Relax Orsines, your left arm relax:
In that which holds the spear I want your strength.
If this you tighten you draw force from that;
And Dionysus meant a deadly wound
When pointing steel at grim Lycurgus King;
Compel your strength where strength will best avail.