Death & Dying
Epigram VI: The Dead Are Beyond Hope (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Ah hapless Thyrsis, where is thy gain, shouldst thou lament till thy two eyes are consumed with tears? She has passed away,—the kid, the youngling beautiful,—she has passed away to Hades. Yea, the jaws of the fierce wolf have closed on her, and now the hounds are baying, but what avail they when nor bone nor cinder is left of her that is departed?
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram VI: The Dead Are Beyond Hope (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/174/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram VI: The Dead Are Beyond Hope (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/174/.
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