The High Immortal Gods are Free by Bacchylides

The high immortal gods are free
From taint of man’s infirmity;
Nor pale diseases round them wait,
Nor pain distracts their tranquil state.

From: Merivale, John Herman, Poems, Original and Translated, Volume 1, 1838, William Pickering: London, p. 238.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lsZJAAAAIAAJ)

Date: 5^th century BCE (original in Greek); 1813 (translation in English)

By: Bacchylides (5^th century BCE)

Translated by: John Herman Merivale (1779-1844)

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