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A Sad Life
by:
Palladas
(4th century A.D.)
translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick
I was born weeping, having wept I die,
And all my life in many tears is passed.
O tearful race of weak humanity!
Dragged under earth to moulder at the last.
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