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A mountain of stupendous height there stands
Betwixt th’ Athenian and Boeotian lands,
Boetia was, and still is, a region of
Central Greece, its largest city is,
and was, Thebes, a major rival in
ancient times of Athens
The bound of fruitful fields, while fields they were,
bound, boundary, the fruitful fields
within a certain limited area, between
But then a field of waters did appear:
Parnassus is its name; whose forky rise
Mounts thro’ the clouds, and mates the lofty skies.
Parnassus is a mountain in Central
Greece, however forky, however
forked, craggy, uneven, sacred
especially to Apollo, god of too
many things to list here, and the
site, at Delphi, on its south-western
slope, of his Oracle, famous for
being consulted on a variety of
matters, from personal to affairs
of state, its high priestess was
believed to incarnate the very
Parnassus was also the home,
incidentally, of the Muses, goddesses
in their own right, of the several arts,
who ministered to Apollo
High on the summit of this dubious cliff,
Deucalion wafting, moor’d his little skiff.
counterpart, sole survivor, with his
wife Pyrrha, of the flood
the cliff is dubious because the
mountain is still deep in water,
its summit precarious yet
He with his wife were only left behind
Of perish’d Man; they two were human kind.
they two alone were left of humankind,
of perish’d Man
The mountain nymphs, and Themis they adore,
Themis, goddess of Divine Justice
And from her oracles relief implore.
at Delphi, its first high priestess, hungry
for, and heedful of, her oracles, counsel
The most upright of mortal men was he;
The most sincere, and holy woman, she.
a chance at a new world
R ! chard
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