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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=555849" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>hero And Leander</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">** HERO AND LEANDER<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Dardanelles is a narrow strait which links, - <br>The strait of Bosporus with the Aegean Sea; <br>And also separates the European from the Asian <br>side of Turkey! <br>In the ancient days this strait was better known<br>as Hellespont, <br>With its narrowest stretch between Sestos and<br>Abydos! <br>Hero, the beautiful virgin priestess of Aphrodite*, -<br>Lived in Sestos on the European side! <br>Leander a fiery youth from Abydos, lived on <br>the opposite side of Sestos! <br>Leander saw Hero at a religious festival at Sestos, <br>And it was love at first sight we are assured! <br>Leander wooed Hero with many soft words of<br>entreaty; <br>How could Aphrodite the Goddess of Love and<br>Beauty, -<br>Accept a virgin’s worship in the logic of all<br>things? <br>For it never did fit in to the scheme of things! <br>Hero finally consented and returned Leander’s <br>love! <br>Every night she lit a lamp on Sesto’s tower above! <br>To guide Leander as he swam the Hellespont -<br>And to come safely to her waiting shores! <br>One day a violent storm broke out at sea, -<br>Making Leander to drift far out at sea! <br>The strong winds had extinguished Hero’s <br>tower light, <br>What fate ordains can hardly be denied! <br>Hero jumped from the tower overcome with<br>grief, <br>And at the bottom of the Hellespont they both <br>peacefully sleep! <br>   -Raj Nandy<br>   18 Apr 09<br>   New Delhi<br>(Composed this poem-based on an old Greek myth I<br> came across reading Byzantine History! *Greek Aphrodite -<br> is the Roman Venus, – the goddess of love.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Raj+Nandy">Raj Nandy</a><div class=q>
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The Dardanelles is a narrow strait which links, - 
The strait of Bosporus with the Aegean Sea; 
And also separates the European from the Asian 
side of Turkey! 
In the ancient days this strait was better known
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