Homer, thy song men liken to the sea <br />With all the notes of music in its tone, <br />With tides that wash the dim dominion <br />Of Hades, and light waves that laugh in glee <br />Around the isles enchanted; nay, to me <br />Thy verse seems as the River of source unknown <br />That glasses Egypt's temples overthrown <br />In his sky-nurtured stream, eternally. <br /> <br />No wiser we than men of heretofore <br />To find thy sacred fountains guarded fast; <br />Enough, thy flood makes green our human shore, <br />As Nilus Egypt, rolling down his vast <br />His fertile flood, that murmurs evermore <br />Of gods dethroned, and empires in the past.<br /><br />Andrew Lang<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/homer-3/
