PARMENIDES
The priest, he was a healer when,
upon a time before the fall,
of heavy doom, that gods and men
sundered, near beyond recall
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Journeyed wide, with limbs quite still
as death or sleep, on wheels of thought,
Led he by maids and mares on will,
until before a goddess brought
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There, at the spinning hub of things,
as much within as all beyond
upon the spokes and outer rings,
She greeted him as lover fond
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One being to another there,
revealed the goddess unity;
the plains of change, and aquifer
of Being, sure past certainty
