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hawkwing_lbTo Selene
Tell [me] to sing of the broad-winged moon, sweet-speaking Muses,
Daughters of Kronos’s son Zeus, right judges of song:
Far from earth the heaven-shown radiance of her head – sprung from an immortal –
Circles, and great ornament awakens beneath her
Shining lustre: and the unlit haze glistens
Under a golden crown, and brightness lingers
Whenever far-shining Selene, divine like Zeus,
Having bathed her noble skin in Ocean and having wrapped herself in garments
And having harnessed resplendent young horses with proud-arched necks
Should drive the fine-maned horses eagerly forward,
west, at the full moon. And her vast furrow swells,
And the brightest light then comes into being, down from heaven
While she rises high. And she is ordained as a fixed mark for mortals (who bleed from their wounds), a sign.
With her once in affection – and also the marriage-bed – the son of Kronos had sexual intercourse,
And she, after she conceived, brought forth the girl Pandeia,
Who among the deathless gods stood out as having great beauty.
Hail, lady, white-armed goddess, Selene divine like Zeus,
Gracious and fine of hair: and now I’ve begun with the fame of your light,
I will sing of the demigods, whose deeds singers – the Muses’ loyal comrades –
Will make famous from their desire-filled mouths.
A bit complex, that one.
Tell [me] to sing of the broad-winged moon, sweet-speaking Muses,
Daughters of Kronos’s son Zeus, right judges of song:
Far from earth the heaven-shown radiance of her head – sprung from an immortal –
Circles, and great ornament awakens beneath her
Shining lustre: and the unlit haze glistens
Under a golden crown, and brightness lingers
Whenever far-shining Selene, divine like Zeus,
Having bathed her noble skin in Ocean and having wrapped herself in garments
And having harnessed resplendent young horses with proud-arched necks
Should drive the fine-maned horses eagerly forward,
west, at the full moon. And her vast furrow swells,
And the brightest light then comes into being, down from heaven
While she rises high. And she is ordained as a fixed mark for mortals (who bleed from their wounds), a sign.
With her once in affection – and also the marriage-bed – the son of Kronos had sexual intercourse,
And she, after she conceived, brought forth the girl Pandeia,
Who among the deathless gods stood out as having great beauty.
Hail, lady, white-armed goddess, Selene divine like Zeus,
Gracious and fine of hair: and now I’ve begun with the fame of your light,
I will sing of the demigods, whose deeds singers – the Muses’ loyal comrades –
Will make famous from their desire-filled mouths.
A bit complex, that one.
