
Open on the plain of Nysa, 4 and there the Hospitable Lord In amazement she reached out with both hands to take Perfumed odor the whole broad sky above and the wholeĮarth smiled, and the salty swell of the sea. From its root a hundred heads grew out, and a Thing to see both for the immortal gods and for The maiden with eyes like buds by the will of Zeus, as aįavor to the Hospitable One. Hyacinth, and narcissus, that Earth put forth as a snare for


Soft meadow, roses and saffron and lovely violets, iris and Golden sword and resplendent fruit, with the deep-bosomedĭaughters of Ocean, picking flowers across the Zeus as she frolicked, away from Demeter of the I sing, of her and her slender-ankled daughter, whomĪïdoneus 2 seized by favor of heavy-booming, wide-sounding

Of Demeter the lovely-haired, the august goddess first
