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Works and Days
Book 1, Line 84 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)
(ll. 822-828) These days are a great blessing to men on earth; but the rest are changeable, luckless, and bring nothing. Everyone praises a different day but few know their nature. Sometimes a day is a stepmother, sometimes a mother. That man is happy and lucky in them who knows all these things and does his work without offending the deathless gods, who discerns the omens of birds and avoids transgressions.
Works and DaysBook 1, Line 84Hugh G. Evelyn-WhiteEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 1
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