But mount to paradise
By the stairway of surprise.'
Blameless master of the games,
King of sport that never shames,
He shall daily joy dispense
Hid in song's sweet influence.
Forms more cheerly live and go,
What time the subtle mind
Sings aloud the tune whereto
Their pulses beat,
And march their feet,
And their members are combined.
By Sybarites beguiled,
He shall no task decline;
Merlin's mighty line
Extremes of nature reconciled,—
Bereaved a tyrant of his will,
The people who lived in the ancient Greek city of Sybaris were devoted to pleasure and excessive luxury. 
 
 Sybarites were so pompous and obsessed with living the high life, their calvarymen trained their horses to dance to pipe music. 
 Because of that history,  “Sybarite”  has become a synonym for anyone who practices hedonism.