The Hypochondriac's Epitaph
See! I was right in spite of all their jeers.
I who this grave now fill:
I kept on telling them for eighty years
that I was really ill.
(from "Autumn Gleanings: Corfu Memoirs and Poems")
(from "Sweet-voiced Sappho. Poems of Sappho and other Ancient Greek Authors translated into English Verse by Theodore Stephanides", 2015)