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b. 270 BC Greece
Theocritus (fl. c. 270 BC) was a Greek poet of the 3rd century BC, probably a Syracusan who later lived in Kos and Alexandria. He invented the genre of pastoral poetry.
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While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.
Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small
It's always holiday for those that have nothing to do.
Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.
Sweeter, shepherd, falls thy song than yonder stream that tumbles plashing from the rocks.
For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed,
Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?
The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.
The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.
Pretty Bombŷca, in you the world may see
Look, still is the sea and still are the breezes; but the pain in my heart is not still.
They that yearn grow old in a day.
Where are the bay-leaves, Thestylis, and the charms?
Age overtakes us all;
My club, a beetling olive's stalwart trunk
No? Reflect that you're older each year than the last;
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