With Zeus we lost a Satyr and an Apollo
with an Artemis in one, a shower of gold,
an eagle, a flame of fire, a swan, a goose,
thus, visiting Antiope, Callisto, Danae,
Aegina (both as fire and a bird of prey),
Leda, Nemesis, and for Europa, of course,
he played a Taurus, a bull—since this God
knew how to be all these to his urbane lovers
behind his wife’s back—and for her he did
a cuckoo’s skit. And if for anything, then
for this one thing Zeus must be praised—
he was the last God of the West who didn’t
refuse to have besides sons—and having quite
few of these—daughters! even daughters! too!
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