Time & Brevity
Hoarded Beauty (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Time & Brevity
If beauty grows old, impart thou of it before it be gone; and if it abides, why fear to give away what thou dost keep?
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Sardis, Strato of. “Hoarded Beauty (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/strato/88/.
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Sardis, Strato of. “Hoarded Beauty (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/strato/88/.
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