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Friday, 28 June 2013

All Things Drink - Anacreon

Fruitful earth drinks up the rain;
Trees from earth drink that again;
The sea drinks the air, the sun
Drinks the sea, and him the moon.
Is it reason then, d'ye think,
I should thirst when all else drink?

Anacreon [or Anakreon] (c. 582 – 485 BC) Turkey (Ancient Greece)
Translated by Thomas Stanley
Source: All Poetry

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