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EPIGRAM: 31. LOVE'S CAPRICIOUSNESS by CALLIMACHUS

First Line: THE HUNTERS, EPICYDES, GO
Last Line: THAT READY FOR THE TAKING LIES.
Subject(s): LOVE - NATURE OF;

THE hunters, Epicydes, go
Among the hills in frost and snow,
And follow every hare, and mind
Keenly the slot of every hind;
But if they're told 'That beast is hit;
Look! lying there', they'll none of it.
And so my love is; for it gives
Incessant chase to fugitives,
But hurries heedless past the prize
That ready for the taking lies.



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