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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