Alas! alas! when in a garden fair
Mallows, crisp dill, or parsley yields to fate,
But when of mortal life the bloom and crown,
The wise, the good, the valiant, and the great
We sleep—for ever sleep—for ever lie unknown.
Moschus (1st century BC) Greece
Translated by M. J. Chapman
Source: The Book of Sorrow, ed. by Andrew Macphail. Oxford University Press, 1916
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