From Homer to Theocritus: A Manual of Greek Literature, 第 56 巻C. Scribner's Sons, 1901 - 476 ページ Bibliographical appendix: p. 457-464. |
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146 ページ - in the dust, And venerable bosom bleeding bare. But youth's fair form, though fallen, is ever fair, And beautiful in death the boy appears, The hero boy, that dies in blooming years. In man's regret he lives, and woman's tears, More sacred than in life, and lovelier far, For having perished in the front of war.