For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.


Imitations of Horace Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159; 'Speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725–6) bk. 15, l. 84

Alexander Pope Quotes

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.