Love
Broken Vows (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Holy night, and thou, O lamp, you and none other we took to witness of our vows; and we swore, he that he would love me, and I that I would never leave him, and you kept witness between us. And now he says that these vows are written in running water, O lamp, and thou seest him on the bosom of another.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Broken Vows (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/160/.
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Gadara, Meleager of. “Broken Vows (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meleager/160/.
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