[Iliad, B. XIV. V. 283] <br /> <br />They then to fountain-abundant Ida, mother of wild beasts, <br />Came, and they first left ocean to fare over mainland at Lektos, <br />Where underneath of their feet waved loftiest growths of the woodland. <br />There hung Hypnos fast, ere the vision of Zeus was observant, <br />Mounted upon a tall pine-tree, tallest of pines that on Ida <br />Lustily spring off soil for the shoot up aloft into aether. <br />There did he sit well-cloaked by the wide-branched pine for concealment, <br />That loud bird, in his form like, that perched high up in the mountains, <br />Chalkis is named by the Gods, but of mortals known as Kymindis.<br /><br />George Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hypnos-on-ida/
