Fragment From the Greek of Alcman
FROM THE GREEK OF ALCMAN
The mountain summits sleep: glens, cliffs, and caves
Are silent — all the black earth's reptile brood,
The bees, the wild beasts of the mountain wood:
In depths beneath the dark red ocean's waves
Its monsters rest, whilst, wrapt in bower and spray,
Each bird is hushed that stretched its pinions to the day.
The mountain summits sleep: glens, cliffs, and caves
Are silent — all the black earth's reptile brood,
The bees, the wild beasts of the mountain wood:
In depths beneath the dark red ocean's waves
Its monsters rest, whilst, wrapt in bower and spray,
Each bird is hushed that stretched its pinions to the day.
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