HEPHAESTUS
PERSEPHONE AT ENNA AND
SAPPHO IN LEUCADIA
BY
ARTHUR STRINGER
METHODIST BOOK & PUBLISHING HOUSE
TORONTO
GRANT RICHARDS, LONDON
1903
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DEDICATION
What bird that climbs the cool dim Dawn
But loves the air its wild wings roam?
And yet when all the day is gone
But turns its weary pinions home,
And when the yellow twilight fills
The lonely stretches of the West,
Comes down across the darkened hills,
Once more to its remembered nest?
And I who strayed, O Fond and True,
To seek that glory fugitive
And fleeting music that is You,
But echoes of yourself can give
As through the waning gold I come
To where the Dream and Dreamer meet:
Yet should my faltering lips be dumb,
I lay these gleanings at your feet!
HEPHAESTUS
(Hephaestus, finding that his wife Aphrodite is loved byhis brother Ares, voluntarily surrenders the goddess tothis younger brother, whom, it is said, Aphrodite herselfpreferred.)
Take her, O Ares! As Demeter mourned
Through many-fountained Enna, I shall grieve
Forlorn a time, and then, it may be, learn,
Some still autumnal twilight by the sea
Golden with sunlight, to remember not!
As the dark pine forgoes the pilgrim thrush
I, sad of heart, yet unimpassioned, yield
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