Time & Brevity
To-Morrow (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
"To-morrow I will look on thee"--but that never comes for us, while the accustomed putting-off ever grows and grows. This is all thy grace to my longing; and to others thou bearest other gifts, despising my faithful service. "I will see thee at evening." And what is the evening of a woman's life? old age, full of a million wrinkles.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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MLA
Consul, Macedonius the. “To-Morrow (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/macedonius/51/.
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Consul, Macedonius the. “To-Morrow (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/macedonius/51/.
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