The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

Of all th’ immortals, whose abode is placed

Among the mount Olympus’ snow-top’d heads,

[157]Or in the dark abysses of the ground:

Then Love most beauteous of immortals rose:

He of each god and mortal man at once

Unnerves the limbs, dissolves the wiser breast

By reason steel’d, and quells the very soul.

From Chaos, Erebus and sable Night:

From Night arose the Sunshine and the Day:

Offspring of Night from Erebus’ embrace.