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Excerpt from The Ideas That Have Influenced Civilization, in the Original Documents, Vol. 2
Hail! Daughters of Jove; and give the lovely song. And sing the sacred race of immortals ever-existing, who sprang from Earth and starry Heaven, and murky Night, whom the briny Deep nourished Say, too, how at the first the gods and earth were born, and rivers and boundless deep, rushing with swollen stream, and shining stars, and the broad Heaven above; and the gods who were Sprung from these, givers of good gifts; and say how they divided their wealth, and how they apportioned their honours, and how at the first they occupied Olympus with-its-many - ravines. Tell me these things, ye Muses, abid ing in Olympian homes from the beginning, and say we what was the first of them that rose.
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