Death & Dying
A Grave in Persia
Translated by Rennell Rodd (1916) · From Love, Worship and Death (1916)
Death & Dying
Far from our own Ægean shore
And the surges booming deep,
Here where Ecbatana's great plain
Lies broad, we exiles sleep.
Farewell, Eretria the renowned,
Where once we used to dwell;
Farewell, our neighbour Athens;
Beloved sea, farewell!
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Plato. “A Grave in Persia.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/37/.
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Plato. “A Grave in Persia.” Translated by Rennell Rodd. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/plato/37/.
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