Word: lyre
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When Homer's lyre was plucked...
...Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest man in the world; he would have captained the Argonauts were it not that in moments of insanity he murdered friend and foe alike...
...Grew, a trained and tried career diplomat. But the big-money backgrounds of Businessmen Clayton and Rockefeller offered demagogues (and the left-wing press) a rare opportunity to orate against Wall Street. Anti-New Dealers saw a free chance to twang Poet MacLeish over the head with his own lyre...
...Type No. 4, the double-decker, that 19th-Century iron founders really went to town. After 1810, Classic Revivalists designed these things with pillars, cornices, lyre scrolls, fluting and acanthus leaves. About 1840, with the Victorian Age, gimcrackery went wild. Fancy stoves were designed like houses, with mansard roofs and movable iron puppets in the windows. There were also Chinese pagodas with swinging bells. In the most restrained taste was a job turned out by a Troy, N.Y. foundry (see cut), possessing a large humidifier urn on top, in which the housewife could put oil of cloves, cinnamon or verbena...
...When Worthen Plays," there is the same moving simplicity and clarity in catching a parallel of life in a human custom or act. As Percy Hutchison phrased it, although he deals with beauty and delicacy of subject, Coffin "never forgets that his is the oaten flute and not the lyre...