AURORA
Aurora
is the Roman name of the goddess of the dawn. Her
name may also relate to Latin for gold- aurum.
In
Greek mythology this figure was known as
Eos.
She flies across the sky pouring out light before the sun arises. She
is ever-young and yet relates in some ways to the passing of time. In
Greek and Roman mythology any mortal who is involved with an immortal
goddess tends to end up being punished.
For
instance- A myth taken
from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the
prince of Troy, Tithonus. Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore
age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, Aurora
asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her
wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his
immortality, and he became forever old. - Wikipedia
Painting- Eos by Evelyn de Morgan
AURORA
First
fine and radiant gold-sheen
as
dawn broke darkness,
revived
world light on vastness,
far
eastern-wide,
and
showed the soft curve of her form
and
lit with solar fire
the
gold in her fair hair.
Then
suddenly she seemed
Aurora,
goddess of the dawn,
alight
with day's new rays,
divine
and shining there.
Yet
then I saw
I
was betrayed.
No
mortal may
dwell
in that wish,
love
in that spell-
and
live unpunished.
Then
I could see
that
dawn meant my farewell.
And
so that dawn still shines,
in
secret memory
of
heart and mind...
but
only
as
sad as some
gold
sunset's dying light
before
the ever-lonely
long
silence of the night.
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