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).