Strategy for Living: A Poem By Horace

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Leuconoe, why try to know

The future, which cannot be known?

Or what the Assyrian numbers say

Of your fate and my own?

Put it away, don’t waste your time,

Winter will come on

And break the lower sea on the rocks

While we drink summer’s wine.

See, in the white of the winter air

The day hangs like a rose.

It droops down to the reaching hand

Take it before it goes.

                                          (Odes I.11)

The Poem is Written By Quintus Horatius Flaccus also known as Horace and translated by Thomas McEvilley. The poem is originally written in Latin.

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