By and large Author:Franklin Pierce Adams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DAUNTLESS BARD Horace: Book I, Ode 22. " Integer vita, scelerisque purus " O Fuscus, if your heart be true, If you be but a righteous liver, N... more »o Moorish bow need bother you, Nor arrows from a foeman's quiver. Duluth, Winona, Kankakee, South Framingham and points adjacent It matters not where you may be, If but your conscience be complacent. Why, once when I was singing of My Lalage need I repeat it? ; A wolf that heard my song of love Gave me a look and straightway beat it. The Dauntless Bard Put me where it is cold or hot. Where water's ice, or where it's b'iling, I'll sing who likes my stuff or not My Lalage so sweetly smiling. THE SUBURBAN CRAZE IN ROME Catullus: Ode 26. Your bungalow, my Furius, is not up against the wind East, west or north or even south in fact, not any kind; But up against a cyclone that has emptied all your purses A mortgage of a trifle over fifteen thou. sesterces. THE PROPERTIAN FANCY AD TULLUM Propertius: Book I, Elegy 14. " Tu licet abjectus Tibernia molliter unda" Though you recline on the banks of the Tiber, Drinking some excellent dope; Though you're considerable Lesbian imbiber, Would I exchange with you? . .Nope. Wine and the wealth of a teacher of dancing, Loveless, were naught but a curse. Cynthia for me, with her vernal romancing Which I can put into verse. A TIP TO PONTICUS Propertius: Elegy 7. " Dum tibi Cadmeae dicuntur, Pontice, Tbebte " What time thou singest martial airs As well as Homer ever did O Ponticus, I scorn to kid! I sing about some fluff. Some Fluff is right. I sing her praise. Thus do I spend my whole career; That is my total cause for cheer, Mine only claim to bays. Let luckless lovers not...« less