Tuesday, 23 March 2021

THE LABOURS OF HERACLES # 01: THE NEMEAN LION

 

Heracles when driven mad by the Goddess Hera

Murdered his three children and his wife Megara

The Delphic oracle punished him for the murders

By ordering him to perform the Twelve Labour's

The labour's were set by King Eurystheus his cousin

And his first task was killing the Nemean Lion

It was no ordinary lion but a supernatural monster

Its skin could not be penetrated by arrow or spear

So, he blocked the entrance to the lion's cave

And then Heracles entered fearless and brave

At close quarters he fought the creature fiercely  

And strangled it with his bare hands savagely

Ever after he wore its skin about him as a cape

And as a helmet he wore its head with jaws agape

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