<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=478186" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homer's Hymn To Castor And Pollux</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye wild-eyed Muses, sing the Twins of Jove,<br>Whom the fair-ankled Leda, mixed in love<br>With mighty Saturn’s Heaven-obscuring Child,<br>On Taygetus, that lofty mountain wild,<br>Brought forth in joy: mild Pollux, void of blame, <br>And steed-subduing Castor, heirs of fame.<br>These are the Powers who earth-born mortals save<br>And ships, whose flight is swift along the wave.<br>When wintry tempests o’er the savage sea<br>Are raging, and the sailors tremblingly <br>Call on the Twins of Jove with prayer and vow,<br>Gathered in fear upon the lofty prow,<br>And sacrifice with snow-white lambs,--the wind<br>And the huge billow bursting close behind,<br>Even then beneath the weltering waters bear <br>The staggering ship--they suddenly appear,<br>On yellow wings rushing athwart the sky,<br>And lull the blasts in mute tranquillity,<br>And strew the waves on the white Ocean’s bed,<br>Fair omen of the voyage; from toil and dread <br>The sailors rest, rejoicing in the sight,<br>And plough the quiet sea in safe delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Percy+Bysshe+Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</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=478186" data-title="Homer's Hymn To Castor And Pollux de Percy Bysshe Shelley" data-description="Ye wild-eyed Muses, sing the Twins of Jove, Whom the fair-ankled Leda, mixed in love With mighty Saturn’s Heaven-obscuring Child, On Taygetus, that lofty mountain wild, Brought forth in joy: mild Pollux, void of blame, And steed-subduing Castor..."></div> </div> </div>

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