A Bid to a House-Party
ad torquatum
Horace: Book I, Epistle 5.
“Si potes Archiacis conviva recumbere lectis—”
Torquatus, if you can recline
On this cheap furniture of mine,
If you are of a mind to dare
My frugal vegetable fare,
If six-year wine may pass your throat—
Then come and visit this here pote.
My house is clean, though far from sporty;
I'll look for you about 5.40.
On this cheap furniture of mine,
If you are of a mind to dare
My frugal vegetable fare,
If six-year wine may pass your throat—
Then come and visit this here pote.
My house is clean, though far from sporty;
I'll look for you about 5.40.
Some years ago to-morrow morn
Was old Augustus Cæsar born.
It is a legal holiday
And so we needn’t leave the hay
Till noon. To-night we'll fool around
Discussing light things and profound:
Girls, poetry and aviation,
And eke the future of the nation.
Was old Augustus Cæsar born.
It is a legal holiday
And so we needn’t leave the hay
Till noon. To-night we'll fool around
Discussing light things and profound:
Girls, poetry and aviation,
And eke the future of the nation.
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