Guide to Greece by George Kalogeris

Author:George Kalogeris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

As to the slender palm tree on sandy Delos,

The one that was known as Nausikaa, Cicero

Saw it too, and calls it “her” in a letter;

For the fragrance of lemons that turns the Aegean golden,

Consult The Odes of Kalvos; for the flicker of light

That fissures the honeyed fig, see The Orchards of Syon;

For Dodona’s Oak of Zeus, Pausanias notes

That it still spoke, but only when shaken by rock-

Pigeons and wood-doves, and these were never called Sibyls;

For the Syrian laurel that sprouts such fleeting gold hair,

Study Bernini’s Daphne, whose writhing trunk

Still freezes the racing god in stunned midstride;

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