The Glory That Was Greece

Introduction

αἰ δὲ τεαὶ ξώουσιν ἀηδόνες ᾖσιν ὁ πάντων
  ἁρπακτὴρ Ἀῒδης οὐκ ἐπὶ χεῖρα βαλεῖ
          Callimachus.

“Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake,
 For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.”