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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPIDAURUS, by NICHOLAS MICHELL
First Line: Lo! Epidaurus spreads his velvet vale
Last Line: Endued with powers ne'er known on lower earth.
Subject(s): Epidaurus, Greece
First Line: Lo! Epidaurus spreads his velvet vale
Last Line: Endued with powers ne'er known on lower earth.
Subject(s): Epidaurus, Greece
LO! Epidaurus spreads his velvet vale,
Sacred to health, renowned in classic tale.
Here sprang that sage a precious balm who drew
From every sweet-lipped flower which drinks the dew:
Ay, doubt not, -- symbols, scattered stones remain, --
Rose in this glen the healer's worshipped fane.
Weak age, sick beauty, youth with broken powers,
From distant climes came pilgrims to these bowers,
Fain to escape the grim destroyer, Death,
To pray, to hope, the boon of added breath;
For then, as now, man shrank to tread the shore
Where all is peace, and sorrow comes no more,
Where souls shall spring to new immortal birth,
Endued with powers ne'er known on lower earth.
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