Classic Poem

Promakhos

Put not your trust in long ships, nor in high ships, for the wind conquers them all. One blast caused the death of Promakhos, and the waves devoured him with all his companions. Yet his fate was not relentless to the end; he was given a tomb and funeral honours in the land of his fathers, for the sea cast his corpse upon its vast shore.EnglishLeonidas of Tarentum