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Hesperides
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Hesperides (hĕspĕr`ĭdēz), in Greek mythology, daughters of Atlas. They lived in a fabulous garden located at the western extremity of the world. There they guarded (with the aid of the dragon Ladon) a tree that bore golden apples. Hercules killed the dragon and obtained the apples as one of his 12 labors.
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In that poem, as if it were his last will, Poland is the ancient, two-faced god Swiatowid, listening as the drums beat closer On plains to the east, plains to the west, While in its sleep the country dreams of bees Buzzing through noons in Hesperidian groves.
The Capital, from Treatise on Poetry by Milosz, Czeslaw / The American Poetry Review
 
 
 
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