<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390897" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Horace and Lydia Reconciled</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HORACE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you were mine in auld lang syne,<br> And when none else your charms might ogle,<br> I'll not deny,<br> Fair nymph, that I<br> Was happier than a Persian mogul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LYDIA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before she came--that rival flame!--<br> (Was ever female creature sillier?)<br> In those good times,<br> Bepraised in rhymes,<br> I was more famed than Mother Ilia!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HORACE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chloe of Thrace! With what a grace<br> Does she at song or harp employ her!<br>I'd gladly die<br> If only I<br> Might live forever to enjoy her!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LYDIA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Sybaris so noble is<br> That, by the gods! I love him madly--<br> That I might save<br> Him from the grave<br> I'd give my life, and give it gladly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HORACE</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What if ma belle from favor fell,<br> And I made up my mind to shake her,<br> Would Lydia, then,<br> Come back again<br> And to her quondam flame betake her?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LYDIA</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My other beau should surely go,<br> And you alone should find me gracious;<br> For no one slings<br> Such odes and things<br> As does the lauriger Horatius!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390897" data-title="Horace and Lydia Reconciled de Eugene Field" data-description="HORACE When you were mine in auld lang syne, And when none else your charms might ogle, I'll not deny, Fair nymph, that I Was happier than a Persian mogul. LYDIA Before she came--that rival flame!-- (Was ever female creature sillier?) In ..."></div> </div> </div>

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