The Companions in Hades ~ By George Seferis trans. by Edmund Keeley

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

fools, who ate the cattle of Helios Hyperion;
but he deprived them of the day of their return.
— Odyssey


Since we still had some hardtack
how stupid of us
to go ashore and eat
the Sun’s slow cattle,

for each was a castle
you’d have to battle
forty years, till you’d become
a hero and a star!

On the earth’s back we hungered,
but when we’d eaten well
we fell to these lower regions
mindless and satisfied.

Comments

[med_cat]

Indeed...

[med_cat]

Also, your icon is very interesting; did you make it yourself? :)

[duathir.livejournal.com]

Nice; thank you.