Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HIS SON, by CALLIMACHUS



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First Line: But twelve short years you lived, my son
Last Line: (g. B. Grundy)
Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos
Subject(s): Death; Sons; Dead, The


BUT twelve short years you lived, my son,
Just twelve short years, and then you died:
And now your life's brief course is run,
This grave a father's hopes doth hide.

(G. B. Grundy)





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