Orpheus Poems

FROM MAN YOU BECAME GOD

AND you will find in Hades' halls at the left a fountain / and beside this a white standing cypress; / near that spring do not approach at all. / You will find from another, from Memory's lake, / cold water coming forth; but there exist guardians at the front. / To say*: "earth's child am I and starry heaven's; / however my origin is heavenly; this you know yourselves; / I'm under great thirst and perishing; but give quickly / cold water from Memory's lake." / And they will give you to drink from the divine fountain / and then you will reside with the other heroes.

From man, you became God.