Maybe you were a goddess
Venus in Rome in love,
Your name was mentioned in rhymes,
By poems at the royal table.
Maybe you were a princess.
A crown of boundless love,
Who shone in the sky like a morning star,
Roses bloomed among the grass.
Getting rid of grief and debt
You learned to be happy through tears
In the temple of young Aphrodite,
In the temples of the gilded gods.
Among the walls covered with inscriptions
Athletes bowed at your feet
And warriors, and philosophers, and poets,
And all the men of the illustrious Athens.
And your dance was divine,
And all the Spartan and Laconian people,
And Alexander the Great of Macedonia
I kissed the traces of your sandals.
And now you favor me
And you ask for protection from the world.
Maybe you were a goddess...
For me even today you are a goddess,
For me, you are a princess and a protector,
Music, a muse, and a star
