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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: shoulders; she crowned his head with a halo of golden cloud from
which she kindled a glow of gleaming fire. As the smoke that goes
up into heaven from some city that is being beleaguered on an
island far out at sea--all day long do men sally from the city
and fight their hardest, and at the going down of the sun the
line of beacon-fires blazes forth, flaring high for those that
dwell near them to behold, if so be that they may come with their
ships and succour them--even so did the light flare from the head
of Achilles, as he stood by the trench, going beyond the wall--
but he aid not join the Achaeans for he heeded the charge which
his mother laid upon him.
The Iliad |
