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First Line: Come back, ye wandering muses, come back home
Last Line: Temper a graver with a lighter song.
Variant Title(s): Proem To Hellenics
Subject(s): Muses; Mythology - Classical


COME back, ye wandering Muses, come back home,
Ye seem to have forgotten where it lies:
Come, let us walk upon the silent sands
Of Simois, where deep foot-marks show long strides;
Thence we may mount, perhaps, to higher ground,
Where Aphrodite from Athene won
The golden apple, and from Here too,
And happy Ares shouted far below.
Or would ye rather choose the grassy vale
Where flow Anapos thro' anemones,
Hyacinths, and narcissuses, that bend
To show their rival beauty in the stream?
Bring with you each her lyre, and each in turn
Temper a graver with a lighter song.





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