Her sweet face now unworshipped and unseen

Abides the symbol of all loveliness,

Of Beauty ever stainless in the stress

Of warring lusts and fears; and still divine,

Still ready with immortal peace to bless

Them that with pure hearts worship at her shrine.[[1]]


[1]. From Mr Andrew Lang’s Helen of Troy (G. Bell and Sons Ltd.).

[2]. From Messrs Lang, Leaf, and Myers’s translation of the Iliad (Macmillan and Co. Ltd.).

[3]. From Professor J. W. Mackail’s translation of the Odyssey (John Murray).