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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

“To-morrow, and To-morrow”: Macedonius (Third Century A.D.)

By The Greek Anthology

Translation of John William Mackail

“TO-MORROW I will look on thee,”—but that never comes for us, while the accustomed putting-off ever grows and grows. This is all thy grace to my longing; and to others thou bearest other gifts, despising my faithful service. “I will see thee at evening.” And what is the evening of a woman’s life?—old age, full of a million wrinkles.