In peace, goddess, or war!

HYMN IN PRAISE OF THE CITY EPHESOS

O City Temple-Keeper, praise be thine

For fruitful olive, corn, and clustered vine,

Sweet-watered plain,

And prospered orchard, flocks on sunny sides

Of hills where silver-tracked Kaÿstros glides

To trackless main!

O wide thy roads that height and desert span

For mustered troop and laden caravan,