Into this world … and an Ode of Pindar

From Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg* by Thomas Hood illustrations by Thos. S. Seccombe and engraved by F. Joubert — From Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg* by Thomas Hood
illustrations by Thos. S. Seccombe and engraved by F. Joubert

The Greek poet Pindar addresses the goddess Fortune —

By thee upon the sea swift ships are piloted, ….

Up and down the hopes of men are tossed as they cleave the waves of baffling falsity:

and a sure token of what shall come to pass hath never any man on the earth received from God:

the divinations of things to come are blind.

from The Extant Odes of Pindar* - Olympian Ode XII, translated by Earnest Meyers

Which reminds me of a story …
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P&P: Into this world we come …