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Sculptured Tombs of Hellas

by Percy Gardner

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Epigraph

Few griefs and many joys my life has held,
Out-lengthened to the utmost bounds of eld.
My name is Symmachus, in Chios born,
Which rich with grapes the branching vines adorn;
But when I died, my bones were hidden here,
In Attic land, to gods and men most dear.
          Athenian Epitaph.

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