Muses and Graces! daughters of high Jove,
When erst you left your glorious seats above
To bless the bridal of that wondrous pair,
Cadmus and Harmonia fair,
"What is good and fair
Shall ever be our care."
Thus the burden of it rang:
"That shall never be our care
Which is neither good nor fair."
Such were the words your lips immortal sang.
Theognis of Megara (570 - 485 BC) Greece
Translated by J. A. Symonds
Source: Greek poets in English verse by William Hyde Appleton, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893
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