Eros and Aphrodite

Choral ode from Sophocles' Antigone

Love, unbeaten in the tussle, Love
Plunging among possessions, you who keep
In a girl's soft cheek your nightlong watch, who roam
Through woodland halls and halls of spawning foam,
Sparing neither the gods nor us who sleep
At lifelight's ending: striking from above,

The unjust minds of once just men you re-
direct into disgrace each time you stir
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