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Title: A Roman "Round-Robin" Author: Austin Dobson [More Titles by Dobson] ("HIS FRIENDS" TO QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS.) "Haec decies repetita [non] placebit."--Ars Poetica.
No man can say that Life is short Or touch, with more serene distress, All this is well, no doubt, and tends Why feign to spread a cheerful feast, Recount, and welcome, your pursuits: O, spare to sing, what none deny, Or bid us dine--on this day week-- Of that we fear not overplus; [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |