Anticipating Easter

    I learned that whoever would root out

    Hate must celebrate the brave.

            I can swear by gods that the Dawn,
            On stallions stamping into the sun,
            Never looked down on a man
            Who shed such blazing light on men ..
























Bacchylides
Complete Poems
  Encomium for Hiero of Syracuse
5th Century BC
Robert Fagles, translation
Yale University Press, 1961©