<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Epigram From Homer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pay me my price, potters! and I will sing.<br>Attend, O Pallas! and with lifted arm <br>Protect their oven; let the cups and all <br>The sacred vessels black well, and, baked <br>With good success, yield them both fair renown<br>And profit, whether in the market sold<br>Or streets, and let no strife ensue between us.<br>But, oh ye potters! if with shameless front<br>Ye falsify your promise, then I leave<br>No mischief uninvoked to avenge the wrong.<br>Come, Syntrips, Smaragus, Sabactes, come, <br>And Asbetus, nor let your direst dread,<br>Omodamus, delay! Fire seize your house,<br>May neither house nor vestibule escape,<br>May ye lament to see confusion mar <br>And mingle the whole labor of your hands,<br>And may a sound fill all your oven, such<br>As of a horse grinding his provender,<br>While all your pots and flagons bounce within.<br>Come hither, also, daughter of the sun,<br>Circe the sorceress, and with thy drugs<br>Poison themselves, and all that they have made <br>Of centaurs, as well those who died beneath<br>The club of Hercules, as who escaped,<br>And stamp their crockery to dust; down fall<br>Their chimney; let them see it with their eyes<br>And howl to see the ruin of their art,<br>While I rejoice; and if a potter stoop<br>To peep into his furnace, may the fire<br>Flash in his face and scorch it, that all men<br>Observe, thenceforth, equity and good faith.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Cowper">William Cowper</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=537534" data-title="An Epigram From Homer de William Cowper" data-description="Pay me my price, potters! and I will sing. Attend, O Pallas! and with lifted arm Protect their oven; let the cups and all The sacred vessels black well, and, baked With good success, yield them both fair renown And profit, whether in the market..."></div> </div> </div>

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