AD PUERUM
Horace: Book I, Ode 32.
“_Persicos odi, puer, apparatus_.”
Nix on the Persian pretence!
Myrtle for Quintus H. Flaccus!
Wreaths of the linden tree, hence!
Nix on the Persian pretence!
Waiter, here’s seventy cents–
Come, let me celebrate Bacchus!
Nix on the Persian pretence!
Myrtle for Quintus H. Flaccus.
(Franklin Pierce Adams)
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