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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528355" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Distaff</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Distaff, blithely whirling distaff, azure-eyed Athena's gift<br>To the sex the aim and object of whose lives is household thrift,<br>Seek with me the gorgeous city raised by Neilus, where a plain<br>Roof of pale-green rush o'er-arches Aphrodite's hallowed fane.<br>Thither ask I Zeus to waft me, fain to see my old friend's face,<br>Nicias, o'er whose birth presided every passion-breathing Grace;<br>Fain to meet his answering welcome; and anon deposit thee<br>In his lady's hands, thou marvel of laborious ivory.<br>Many a manly robe ye'll fashion, much translucent maiden's gear;<br>Nay, should e'er the fleecy mothers twice within the selfsame year<br>Yield their wool in yonder pasture, Theugenis of the dainty feet<br>Would perform the double labour: matron's cares to her are sweet.<br>To an idler or a trifler I had verily been loth<br>To resign thee, O my distaff, for the same land bred us both:<br>In the land Corinthian Archias built aforetime, thou hadst birth,<br>In our island's core and marrow, whence have sprung the kings of earth:<br>To the home I now transfer thee of a man who knows full well<br>Every craft whereby men's bodies dire diseases may repel:<br>There to live in sweet Miletus. Lady of the Distaff she<br>Shall be named, and oft reminded of her poet-friend by thee:<br>Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, 'Lo! how small<br>Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship's gifts are priceless all.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theocritus">Theocritus</a><div class=q>
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