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To Anon, following on my previous post. I wrote this a couple years ago. If it helps you any, you are more than welcome to it. It's dactylic, but not hexameter. :-)
Pallas Athene, spear-brandishing goddess, Who bears the Gorgoneion — terrible shield! Fearsome in battle, you scatter your enemies, Stealing their wits till in terror they yield.
Pallas Athene, the guardian of cities, Rejoicing in Justice and Right undefiled; Who teaches the know-how of civilization, That sets us apart from the beasts and the wild:
The bridle for horses, the loom to weave fabric, the flute to make music, the olive for oil. All these and more are the tools that you give us, To bring productivity out of our toil.
Friend of the crafty and peerless in counsel, Your sight probing deeply, your eyes shining grey; I sing of you now and will sing again later. Be gracious and grant that I not lose my way.
Re: Athena
To Anon, following on my previous post. I wrote this a couple years ago. If it helps you any, you are more than welcome to it. It's dactylic, but not hexameter. :-)
Pallas Athene, spear-brandishing goddess,
Who bears the Gorgoneion — terrible shield!
Fearsome in battle, you scatter your enemies,
Stealing their wits till in terror they yield.
Pallas Athene, the guardian of cities,
Rejoicing in Justice and Right undefiled;
Who teaches the know-how of civilization,
That sets us apart from the beasts and the wild:
The bridle for horses, the loom to weave fabric,
the flute to make music, the olive for oil.
All these and more are the tools that you give us,
To bring productivity out of our toil.
Friend of the crafty and peerless in counsel,
Your sight probing deeply, your eyes shining grey;
I sing of you now and will sing again later.
Be gracious and grant that I not lose my way.
Hosea Tanatu