The Appointed Time

  by: Aeschylus (c. 525-456 B.C.)

    translated by E. H. Plumptre


 

Yet though a man gets many wounds in breast,
He dieth not, unless the appointed time,
The limit of his life's span, coincide;
Nor does the man who by the hearth at home
Sits still, escape the doom that Fate decrees.


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