<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>His Boat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This boat you see, friends, will tell you<br>that she was the fastest of craft,<br>not to be challenged for speed<br>by any vessel afloat, whether<br>driven by sail or the labour of oars.<br>The threatening Adriatic coast won’t deny it,<br>nor the isles of the Cyclades,<br>nor noble Rhodes, nor fearful Bosphorus,<br>nor the grim bay of the Black Sea<br>where, before becoming a boat, she was<br>leafy wood: for on the heights of Cytorus<br>she often hissed to the whispering leaves.<br>The boat says these things were well known to you,<br>and are, Amastris and box-wood clad Cytorus: <br>she says from the very beginning she stood<br>on your slope, that she dipped her oars<br>in your water, and carried her owner from there<br>over so many headstrong breakers,<br>whether the wind cried from starboard<br>or larboard, or whether Jupiter struck at the sheets<br>on one side and the other, together:<br>and no prayers to the gods of the shore were offered<br>for her, when she came from a foreign sea<br>here, as far as this limpid lake.<br>But that’s past: now hidden away here<br>she ages quietly and offers herself to you,<br>Castor and his brother, heavenly Twins.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gaius+Valerius+Catullus">Gaius Valerius Catullus</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=393553" data-title="His Boat de Gaius Valerius Catullus" data-description="This boat you see, friends, will tell you that she was the fastest of craft, not to be challenged for speed by any vessel afloat, whether driven by sail or the labour of oars. The threatening Adriatic coast won’t deny it, nor the isles of the Cy..."></div> </div> </div>

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