Yet gave the Thunderer not his full consent Without some words: 'At length is come the day,' Thus spake he, 'when for all thy youth misspent, Thy mischief-making and thy wanton play Thou art upgrown to taste the sweet and sour: Good shall it work upon thee: from this hour Look we for better things. And this I say, 14 'That since thy birth, which all we took for bliss, Thou hast but mock'd us; and no less on me Hast brought disfavour and contempt, ywiss, Than others that have had to do with thee: Till only such as vow'd themselves aloof From thee and thine were held in good approof; And few there were, who thus of shame went free. 15 'That punishment is shapen as reward Is like thy fortune: but our good estate We honour, while we sit to be adored: And thus 'twas written in the book of Fate. Not for thy pleasure, but the general weal Grant I the grace for which thou here dost kneel; And that which I determine shall not wait.' 16 So wingèd Hermes through the heaven he sped, To warn the high celestials to his hall, Where they should Psyche see with Eros wed, And keep the day with feast ambrosial. And Hermes, flying through the skiey ways Of high Olympus, spread sweet Psyche's praise, And bade the mighty gods obey his call. 17 Then all the Kronian gods and goddesses Assembl'd at his cry,--and now 'twas known Why Zeus had smiled,--the lesser majesties Attending them before his royal throne. Athena, mistress good of them that know, Came, and Apollo, warder off of woe, Who had to Psyche's sire her fate foreshown; 18 Demeter, giver of the golden corn, Fair Hebe, honour'd at her Attic shrine, And Artemis with hunting spear and horn, And Dionysos, planter of the vine, With old Poseidon from the barren sea, And Leto, and the lame Hephæstos, he Himself who built those halls with skill divine. 19 And ruddy Pan with many a quip and quirk Air'd 'mong those lofty gods his mirth illbred, Bearing a mighty bowl of cretan work: Stern Arês, with his crisp hair helmeted, Came, and retirèd Hestia, and the god Hermes, with wingèd cap and ribbon'd rod, By whom the company was heralded. 20 And Hera sat by Zeus, and all around The Muses, that of learning make their choice; Who, when Apollo struck his strings to sound, Sang in alternate music with sweet voice: And righteous Themis, and the Graces three Ushering the anger'd Aphrodite; she Alone of all were there might not rejoice 21