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Page xii - And love, and a space for delight, And beauty and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night. His speech is a burning fire; With his lips he travaileth; In his heart is a blind desire, In his eyes foreknowledge of death; He weaves, and is clothed with derision; Sows, and he shall not reap; His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.
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Page 140 - Teach us all so to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Page 104 - And grant that the fierce god of death, who now with no brazen shields, yet amid cries as of battle, wraps me in the flame of his onset, may turn his back in speedy flight from our land, borne by a fair wind to the great deep of Amphitrite, or to those waters in which none find haven, even to the Thracian wave; for if night leave aught undone, day follows to accomplish this.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Epinikoi Isthionikais Macmillan's classical library |
| Author | Pindar |
| Editor | John Bagnell Bury |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1892 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 25, 2006 |
| Length | 194 pages |
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