Three Sea Prayers from the Greek Anthology

Phoebus who holdest the sheer steep of
Leucas, far seen of mariners and washed
by the Ionian Sea, receive of sailors this
mess of hand-kneaded barley bread
and a libation mingled in a little cup, and the
gleam of a brief-shining lamp that drinks
with half-saturate mouth from a sparing oil-
flask; in recompense whereof be gracious,
and send on their sails a favourable wind to
run with them to the harbours of Actium.