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An Age of Marvelous Myths
Ancient Greece:
An age of marvelous myths,
gone, but not forgotten.
Heroes that rise and fall.
Deep winter’s hardship,
summer’s harvest.
Gods who bring about
chaos and order.
Echoes,
fragrant flowers,
spiders,
gold,
stone.
People turned to
these curious stories.
How else to explain
such wonders
when the world was young?
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When the world was young,
such wonders!
How else to explain
these curious stories:
people turned to
stone,
gold,
spiders,
fragrant flowers,
echoes.
Chaos and order.
Gods who bring about
summer’s harvest,
deep winter’s hardship.
Heroes that rise and fall,
gone, but not forgotten.
An age of marvelous myths:
Ancient Greece.