They wash their soft skin in the Horses' SpringFrom: Hesiod: "Theogony," Dorothea Wender (transl., Penguin 1982)
Or in Permessus or Olmeius, then
Dance, fair and graceful, on the mountain-top
And whirl their feet about. Then they rise up [...]
The Liszt and this passage from Hesiod seem to go together quite beautifully . . . I'm not that fond of Liszt, perhaps unfairly; still, when I heard this piece on television while I was reading this quartet of verse, the two of them melded rather unexpectedly.
(The music itself begins at around 3 minutes and 16 seconds:)
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