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 that abyss: th’ unsightly earth is numb’d

In its eternal barren hoariness:

The dismal end of things:

The limits of the world:

Air moveless hangs with clinging weight above:

And black night brooding sits

Upon the lifeless universe.

[216] A drear and ghastly wilderness.] Homer, Il. xx.:

A dismal wilderness

Hoary with desolation: which the gods