April 22, 2006
Poem of the Night
A temporary solution, I think. I don't know--maybe permanent (probably not). Ask me again in about a month.
Horace, Carmina I.xxxviii, "Persicos odi..."Put away--please--this stuff, these ornate ways:
Away ceraceous orchids bound on linden bark,
Away your hunted gems off summer's final days;For you, with glass (subordinating wine from urn),
Enough--the grace of myrtle's sprig will serve enough--
For me, full sprays and cups are all I yearn.
And, of course, to pay obeisance to the original:Persicos odi, puer, apparatus,
displicent nexae philyra coronae,
mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum
sera moretur.Simplici myrto nihil adlabores
sedulus, curo: neque te ministrum
dedecet myrtus neque me sub arta
uite bibentem.
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