<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392016" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hermes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soothsay. Behold, with rod twy-serpented,<br>Hermes the prophet, twining in one power<br>The woman with the man. Upon his head<br>The cloudy cap, wherewith he hath in dower<br>The cloud's own virtue--change and counterchange,<br>To show in light, and to withdraw in pall,<br>As mortal eyes best bear. His lineage strange<br>From Zeus, Truth's sire, and maiden May--the all-<br>Illusive Nature. His fledged feet declare<br>That 'tis the nether self transdeified,<br>And the thrice-furnaced passions, which do bear<br>The poet Olympusward. In him allied<br>Both parents clasp; and from the womb of Nature<br>Stern Truth takes flesh in shows of lovely feature.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Thompson">Francis Thompson</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=392016" data-title="Hermes de Francis Thompson" data-description="Soothsay. Behold, with rod twy-serpented, Hermes the prophet, twining in one power The woman with the man. Upon his head The cloudy cap, wherewith he hath in dower The cloud's own virtue--change and counterchange, To show in light, and to withdraw..."></div> </div> </div>

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