Apollonius of Rhodes - Earth Quotes

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Boughs bend with fruit, Earth from her bosom pours
Herbs ever green, and voluntary flow'rs.

Apollonius of Rhodes

But Lynceus stands renown'd for piercing sight:
So keen his beam, that ancient fables tell,
He saw, thro' earth, the wondrous depths of hell.

Apollonius of Rhodes

Her eyes to earth she bends with modest grace,
And heaven in smiles is open'd on her face.

Apollonius of Rhodes

At Colchos still this barbarous rite prevails:
They never burn the bodies of the males,
Nor deep in earth their decent limbs compose,
And with sepulchral dust the dead enclose;
But in raw hides they hang them high in air:
And yet, that earth may equal portions share,
Departed females to the grave they doom,
(Such are their rites) and close them in the tomb.

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