Rhapsody To The Pleiades Poem by Steve Trimmer

Nymphs art thee
To train of Artemis
To fly afore
Orion and hound, Sirius

Sweet Daughters of Atlas
Who enamoured Orion
He beleaguered thee, Dryads
He, Neptunes scion

Entreaty, asked Pleiades
From Zeus, who hath bade
To transmogrify The Ladies
As Pigeons, to evade

In sidereal form
Took they fore`er
Sisters Seven, reborn
In benighted sky fair

Only six are clear
To the earthbound eye
For Electra hides, in tears
For Her son, Dardanus, She cries

Dardanus hath founded
Illium city of Troy
Lay to ruin, and confounded
She laments Her sweet boy.........

I bewail, for my Fair Ladies of The Pleiades
For they hath been wont to bedimming, henceforth