Dead Thrushes, by Nicarchus

Dead Thrushes

The birds of Stymphalus
Vexed not so the Arcadians,
As those dead thrushes vexed me
With their dry bones,
Very harpies,
Ten of them,
A dry drachma's worth.
Out on you, wretched creatures,
True bats of the fields.

poems.one - Nicarchus