Wednesday 5 June 2013

Pindar's Blues, Man's Life Is a Day


From Pindar's Pythian 8:


Man's life is a day. What is he?
What is he not? A shadow in a dream
Is man: but when God shines a brightness,
Shining light is on earth
And life is sweet as honey.


tr. C.M. Bowra









1967-1968

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