Heraclitus
by Callimachus (c. 310-240 B.C.)
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept as I remembered how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of gray ashes, long, long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
Αυτή η υπέροχη μετάφραση του William Cory (1823–1892) και ιδιαίτερα οι στίχοι με χρώμα magenta, μου θυμίζουν πλέον ανεξίτηλα τον λατρεμένο μου πατέρα, που πρόσφατα έπαψε να υπάρχει ως φυσική παρουσία ..
