C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Virtue Coy and Hard to Win
By Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.)
From a careful study of Simonides by John Sterling (Westminster Review, 1838)
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That Virtue, dwelling high on pathless rocks,
A holy goddess, loves the holy place;
And never there is seen by eyes of those
Whom painful labor has not tried within,
And borne them up to manhood’s citadel.