Here's the quotes I would use, taken from Nagy, G. (n.d.). HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER. [online] Uh.edu. Available at: http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/texts/demeter.html [Accessed 26 Oct. 2015].:
I begin to sing of
Demeter, the holy goddess with the beautiful hair. And her daughter Persephone too. The one with
the delicate ankles, whom Hades seized.
And he found the
Lord inside his palace, seated on a funeral couch, along with his duly acquired
bedmate, the one who was much under duress, yearning for her mother, and suffering
from the unbearable things inflicted on her by the will of the blessed ones.
But he [Hades] gave
her, stealthily, the honey-sweet berry of the pomegranate to eat, peering
around him.
But he, stealthily put
into my hand the berry of the pomegranate, that honey-sweet food, and he
compelled me by biâ to eat of
it. As for how it was that he [Hades] snatched me away, through the metis of
the son of Kronos, my father, and how he took me down beneath the depths of the
earth
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