The Fisherman's Tomb

  by: Sappho (c. 610-570 B.C.)

    translated by H. de Vere Stacpoole


 

Over the fisher Pelagon Meniscus his father set
The oar worn by the wave, the trap, and the fishing net;--
For all men, and for ever, memorials there to be
Of the luckless life of the fisher, the labourer of the sea.


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