Crossword-Solution: IOS 3 letters, 211 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 3

For, they say, after Homer had composed the _Margites_, he went about from city to city as a minstrel, and coming to Delphi, inquired who he was and of what country? The Pythia answered: ‘The Isle of Ios is your mother’s country and it shall receive you dead; but beware of the riddle of the young children.’ 3701 Hearing this, it is said, he hesitated to go to Ios, and remained in the region where he was.

The poet sailed to Ios, after the assembly was broken up, to join Creophylus, and stayed there some time, being now an old man.

Which done, the army ecchoes o're, Like Gamble Ios one and all, And in their various notes implore, Long live our noble Generall.

You, that can haply mixe your joyes with cries, And weave white Ios with black Elegies, Can caroll out a dirge, and in one breath Sing to the tune either of life, or death; You, that can weepe the gladnesse of the spheres, And pen a hymne, in stead of inke, with teares; Here, here your unproportion'd wit let fall, To celebrate this new-borne funerall, And greete that little greatnesse, which from th' wombe Dropt both a load to th' cradle and the tombe.

Say, happy youth, crown'd with a heav'nly ray Of the first flame, and interwreathed bay, Inform my soul in labour to begin, Ios or Anthems, Poeans or a Hymne.