Love
Book XII, 235
Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. IV, 1918)
Love
If beauty grows old, give me of it ere it depart ; but if it remains with thee, why fear to give what shall remain thine?
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