Time & Brevity
The Bird of Time (Mackail)
Translated by J. W. Mackail (1890) · From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology (1890)
Time & Brevity
Thou remembered haply, thou rememberest when I said to thee that holy word, "Opportunity is the fairest, opportunity the lightest-footed of things; opportunity may not be overtaken by the swiftest bird in air." Now lo! all thy flowers are shed on the ground.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Thymocles. “The Bird of Time (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/thymocles/1/.
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Thymocles. “The Bird of Time (Mackail).” Translated by J. W. Mackail. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/thymocles/1/.
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