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Now will I give him to drink of the holy water of Dirke, which golden-robed Mnemosyne's deep-girdled daughters made once to spring out of the earth, beside the well-walled gates of Kadmos. The date of this ode is not fixed, but it has been supposed that the battle referred to apparently a defeat in which the winner's uncle was killed was the battle of Oinophyta, fought B.C. 457.
I looked at her pretty, unsuspecting face, and at the slender grace of her golden-robed body. What gulfs there were between us! "You've been amused," I said. "It's been amusing. You've been at the House?" "The Medical Education Bill kept me."... After all, why should I tell her? She'd got to a way of living that fulfilled her requirements. Perhaps she'd never hear.
For the moon is grand in this climate; she is like a golden-robed empress of all the worlds as she sweeps in lustrous magnificence through the dense violet skies. I shut out her radiance as much as I can; I close the blind at the narrow window of my solitary forest cabin; and yet do what I will, one wide ray creeps in always one ray that eludes all my efforts to expel it.
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