Archilochos
fragment 129
before the pyre
Why should the sea be fat
With my drowned friends?
Why oil the knees of the gods?
Why, why should Hephaistos
The Fire dance his dance
On this splendid face
And feast on these runner’s legs
Poseidon the Water has stilled?
To the ecstatic fire we give to eat
This fine body wrapped in white,
Pleasure once of glad women,
Companion once of Ares, War.

Guy Davenport’s translation from 7 Greeks