Social Commentaries
Fragment LX: The yearly summons of the creaking crane
Translated by John Hookham Frere (1842; Bohn 1856) · From Fragments of Theognis (Frere, 1842)
The yearly summons of the creaking crane,
That warns the ploughman to his task again,
Strikes to my heart a melancholy strain:
When all is lost, and my paternal lands
Are till’d for other lords, with other hands:
Since that disastrous wretched voyage brought
Riches and lands and everything to nought.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LX: The yearly summons of the creaking crane.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/61/.
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Megara, Theognis of. “Fragment LX: The yearly summons of the creaking crane.” Translated by John Hookham Frere. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theognis/61/.
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