.. you wanna hear a song?
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| CD booklet photo, The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 |
1961, Greenwich Village.
Before there were the recordings,
there were already the words.
How would they sound?
You tell me. You sing them.
Now the mate of Aglaus' sister
Stirs this seaborne bee
To build with his clear song
A work for the deathless Muse,
A joy in common to men . .
Bacchylides
Isthmian Ode for Aglaus of Athens, 450 BC
Robert Fagles, translation
Sir Maurice Bowra, foreword
Yale University Press, 1961©
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