The Hymns of Callimachus, Translated from the Greek into English Verse, With Explanatory Notes To which are added, Select Epigrams, and the Coma Berenices of the same Author, Six Hymns of Orpheus, and The Encomium of Ptolemy by Theocritus. By William Dodd |
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[What mortal of the morrow can be sure]
What mortal of the morrow can be sure,So frail is man, and life so insecure?
But yesterday we saw our living friend;
And on the morrow to the grave attend:
A heavier loss hath never parent known,
For never parent had a better son.
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