<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358856" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Young Men of Sidon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The actor they'd brought in to entertain them<br>also recited a few choice epigrams.<br>The room opened out on the garden<br>and the delicate odour of flowers<br>mingled with the scent<br>of the five perfumed young Sidonians.<br>There were readings from Meleager, Krinagoras, Rhianos.<br>But when the actor recited<br>'Here lies Aeschylus, the Athenian, son of Euphorion'<br>(stressing maybe more than he should have <br>'his renowned valour' and 'sacred Marathonian grove'),<br>a vivacious young man, mad about literature,<br>suddenly jumped up and said:<br>'I don't like that quatrain at all.<br>Sentiments of that kind seem somehow weak.<br>Give, I say, all your strength to your work,<br>make it your total concern. And don't forget your work<br>even in times of stress or when you begin to decline.<br>This is what I expect, what I demand of you<br>and not that you completely dismiss from your mind <br>the magnificent art of your tragedies<br>your Agamemnon, your marvellous Prometheus,<br>your representations of Orestes and Cassandra,<br>your Seven Against Thebes -merely to set down for your<br>memorial<br>that as an ordinary soldier, one of the herd,<br>you too fought against Datis and Artaphernis.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358856" data-title="Young Men of Sidon de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="The actor they'd brought in to entertain them also recited a few choice epigrams. The room opened out on the garden and the delicate odour of flowers mingled with the scent of the five perfumed young Sidonians. There were readings from Meleager, K..."></div> </div> </div>

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