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song writing epigraph
Tibullus, Elegies, 2.1.69-70. "There he practised first his unskilled archery. / Alas, how skilful are his hands today!" (Source: Tibullus, Elegies. 3rd ed. trans. Guy Lee. Leeds: Francis Cairns, 1990).