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Give time, a little delay; impulse is ever a bad servant.
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What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.
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Blind counsels of the wicked! Crime cowardly ever!
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Whoever worships the gods in good faith, loves their priests too.
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Yet no stiff and frowning face was hers, no undue austerity in her manners, but gay and simple loyalty, charm blended with modesty.
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The crowd is at silent odds with the prince. As is the way of a populace, the man of the future is the favorite.
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Grief and mad wrath devoured his soul, and hope, heaviest of mortal cares when long deferred.
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They wonder in silence and turn pale for the dubious thunderbolt.
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So does he strive to rescue your shade from the pyre and wages a mighty contest with Death, wearying the efforts of artists and seeking to love you in every material. But beauty created by toil of cunning hand is mortal.
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Vast as the starry Serpent, that on high Tracks the clear ether, and divides the sky, And southward winding from the Northern Wain, Shoots to remoter spheres its glittering train.
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Statius
Born:
40
Died:
96
(aged 56)
Bio:
Publius Papinius Statius was a Roman poet of the 1st century AD. His surviving Latin poetry includes an epic in twelve books, the Thebaid; a collection of occasional poetry, the Silvae; and an unfinished epic, the Achilleid.
Known for:
Thebaid
Silvae
Achilleid
The
Thebaid
: Seven Against Thebes
The Thebaid of Statius
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