The Tomb of Meleager
Winged young man, why do you hold a hunting spear and a boar-skin? Who are you, the symbol on this tomb?
You are not Love. Does Desire dwell among the dead? He has not yet learned how to weep.
Neither are you swift-footed Time, for he is very old and your body is young.
It seems to me that a poet lies beneath the earth here and that you, winged one, speak his name.
Not without reason you hold a two-edged spear — for grave and gay and perhaps for love verses. Yes, the symbols of the boar-hunter mean Meleager, the namesake of the son of oeneus.
Hail to you among the dead! You wedded the Muse to Love, you made Wisdom and the Graces one!
You are not Love. Does Desire dwell among the dead? He has not yet learned how to weep.
Neither are you swift-footed Time, for he is very old and your body is young.
It seems to me that a poet lies beneath the earth here and that you, winged one, speak his name.
Not without reason you hold a two-edged spear — for grave and gay and perhaps for love verses. Yes, the symbols of the boar-hunter mean Meleager, the namesake of the son of oeneus.
Hail to you among the dead! You wedded the Muse to Love, you made Wisdom and the Graces one!
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