For all too soon there will be other people here.

From Theognis 1069-70ab

Humans are foolish and dumb because we mourn

The dead but not the wilting flower of youth.

Take some pleasure, my dear heart. For all too soon

there will be other people here. And, dead, I will be dark earth.

῎Αφρονες ἄνθρωποι καὶ νήπιοι, οἵτε θανόντας

κλαίουσ’, οὐ δ’ ἥβης ἄνθος ἀπολλύμενον.

τέρπεό μοι, φίλε θυμέ· τάχ’ αὖ τινες ἄλλοι ἔσονται

ἄνδρες, ἐγὼ δὲ θανὼν γαῖα μέλαιν’ ἔσομαι.