Cavafy: 166 Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Author:C.P. Cavafy [Cavafy, C.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781604191035
Goodreads: 26715487
Publisher: Axios Press
Published: 2009-01-11T06:00:00+00:00

The Battle of Magnesia

He’d lost his old push, his verve,

his tired body sick almost

would chiefly get his care

and the rest of his life

he’d live unconcerned.

This does Philip project at least.

Tonight he plays dice,

has an appetite for fun:

Set the table with bunches of roses.

So at Magnesia Antiochos is undone:

utter destruction fell, they say,

on the troops of his splendid host.

They might have inflated it. It might not all be true.

If only. They were, while enemies, family.

Still it’s enough, a single “if only”

Could even be too much.

Philip—to be sure—will not put off his feast

however tired from life he is.

One good thing he keeps: his memory does not fail.

He remembers how in Syria

they made their lamentations

the kind of sorrow they had

when mother Macedonia turned ino sweepings.

Now to dinner. Slaves! The flute players, lots of lights.

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