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BIRDS: COSMOGONY ACCORDING TO THE BIRDS by ARISTOPHANES

First Line: YE CHILDREN OF MAN! WHOSE LIFE IS A SPAN
Last Line: OF EASE AND ABUNDANCE AND HAPPINESS
Subject(s): BIRDS;

Poem Sources:

DAPHNE INTO LAUREL; TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL POETRY FROM CHAUCER TOTHE PRESENT.
  STONEMAN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1982)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF CLASSICAL VERSE IN TRANSLATION. EDITED BY ADRIAN POOLE AND JEREMY MAULE.
  POOLE, ADRIAN (ED.)
  (1995)
 



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