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Claude - The Judement of Paris

Who are those two lurking up above

          Staring down as Paris takes

          The apple, just before he makes

His choice of naked goddess, and the love

Of Helen? Don't they realise the cost

          That will follow from his choice?

          Can't they call out with one voice

'Don't do it, Paris, or we'll all be lost?

But at that distance, simply passing through,

          They've no idea what they have seen -

          It might as well have been a dream -

And, after all, what can mere mortals do

When faced with gods who're not required to care

          Or condescend to others' needs,

          So that our inaction leads

To their assumption of the Lion's share?

Brian Hick November 2011

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