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Homer on God

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Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.

Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.

Where'er he moves, the goddess shone before.

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers while the bad prevails.

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,
The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.

O thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fix'd event of fate's remote decrees.

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above
With ease can save each object of his love;
Wide as his will, extends his boundless grace.

The matchless Ganymede, divinely fair.

The son of Saturn gave
The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls
Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head
Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount,
Olympus trembled.

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