<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368197" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade: Legacy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within a stalk of fennel hid, <br>Prometheus took fire for<br>some poor ancestral hominid, <br>infuriating Zeus in lore.<br>Our forbears lived by nature's law <br>and myth to truth is paradox, <br>yet when they cooked their food from raw, <br>they travelled paths unorthodox.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zeus fashioned clay in counterbid, <br>first woman, cursed with moral flaw.<br>Pandora batted sweet eyelid, <br>Prometheus refused, wherefore<br>Zeus chained him, while an eagle tore<br>his liver flayed upon the rocks.<br>When Titan sought mankind's rapport, <br>he travelled paths unorthodox.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zeus gave a jar and then forbid, <br>Pandora look into it's maw.<br>Of course, she peeked inside the lid<br>and helpless, watched the ills outpour.<br>Does hope remain for us in store? <br>the vessel, be it jar or box.<br>When prying led her to explore, <br>she travelled paths unorthodox.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall we live happy evermore? <br>our bodies shaped by boon and pox.<br>Will future beings add encore? <br>They travelled paths unorthodox.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Diane+Hine">Diane Hine</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368197" data-title="Ballade: Legacy de Diane Hine" data-description="Within a stalk of fennel hid, Prometheus took fire for some poor ancestral hominid, infuriating Zeus in lore. Our forbears lived by nature's law and myth to truth is paradox, yet when they cooked their food from raw, they travelled paths unor..."></div> </div> </div>

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