HOMER'S HYMN TO MINERVA.
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Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition;dated 1818.] I sing the glorious Power with azure eyes,Athenian Pallas! tameless, chaste, and wise,Tritogenia, town-preserving Maid,Revered and mighty; from his awful headWhom Jove brought forth, in warlike armour dressed, _5Golden, all radiant! wonder strange possessedThe everlasting Gods that Shape to see,Shaking a javelin keen, impetuouslyRush from the crest of Aegis-bearing Jove;Fearfully Heaven was shaken, and did move _10Beneath the might of the Cerulean-eyed;Earth dreadfully resounded, far and wide;And, lifted from its depths, the sea swelled highIn purple billows, the tide suddenlyStood still, and great Hyperion's son long time _15Checked his swift steeds, till, where she stood sublime,Pallas from her immortal shoulders threwThe arms divine; wise Jove rejoiced to view.Child of the Aegis-bearer, hail to thee,Nor thine nor others' praise shall unremembered be. _20 ***
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