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Shades of Callimachus

Shades of Callimachus

A translation from the Greek Anthology

Paul Franz
Oct 15, 2024
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Wave-tossed stranger
raised by Leontichus
from the strand:

the tears he shed
upon your mound
were for himself.

Restless sailor,
like a gull, he
dares the sea.

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