Happy 30th Birthday to Quotemail this week! We celebrate with a haiku by my cousin Rowan:
"Quotemail's legacy:
Thirty years of joy and fun!
Timeless tales to tell."
Digital image by the Editor: The 9 Muses celebrate Quotemail's 30th birthday! Many happy returns!
Image Description: The 9 Muses are seated at a rectangular table in an ancient Greek temple. On the table is a giant birthday cake with candles and a golden number 30 mounted on top of the cake!
Orphic Hymn #75: "To the Muses"
Translated by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)
Daughters of Jove, dire-sounding and divine,
Renowned Pierian, sweetly speaking Nine;
To those whose breasts your sacred furies fire
Much-formed, the objects of supreme desire:
Sources of blameless virtue to mankind,
Who form to excellence the youthful mind;
Who nurse the soul, and give her to descry
The paths of right with Reason's steady eye.
Commanding queens who lead to sacred light
The intellect refined from Error's night;
And to mankind each holy rite disclose,
For mystic knowledge from your nature flows.
Clio, and Erato, who charms the sight,
With thee, Euterpe, ministering delight:
Thalia flourishing, Polyhymnia famed,
Melpomene from skill in music namd:
Terpischore, Urania heavenly bright,
With thee who gavest me to behold the light.
Come, venerable, various, powers divine,
With favoring aspect on your mystics shine;
Bring glorious, ardent, lovely, famed desire,
And warm my bosom with your sacred fire.
