The Caryatid
<p>Across all of Athens, we used to stand</p>
<p>Six sisters sculpted from alabastrine marble</p>
<p>and tinged with gold</p>
<p>bearing gifts to Artemis</p>
<p>To our West bloomed Athena’s favour</p>
<p>a tree drooping with olives</p>
<p>next to the altars of Erechtheus’s kin</p>
<p>where Athena’s snake roamed</p>
<p>Saltwater sprung where Poseidon’s trident struck</p>
<p>flanked by the bones of Athen’s founding kings</p>
<p>and to the East stood Athena Polias</p>
<p>tall and proud, protectress of all in the city</p>
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