Detail of face of statue of unknown deity, found in Pheres (Thessalia region) in Greece in 1885.
"God of the golden bow,
And of the golden lyre,
And of the golden hair,
And of the golden fire,
Charioteer
Of the patient year,
Where---where slept thine ire,
When like a blank idiot I put on thy wreath,
Thy laurel, thy glory,
The light of thy story,
Or was I a worm---too low crawling for death?
O Delphic Apollo!..."
Excerpt from Hymn to Apollo by John Keats
3 comments:
I like the poem.
Me, too (though I must confess to knowing individuals who were both worms AND idiots).
I know you have a fondness for Dean Wormer. Speaking of worms...
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