"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
O sibili,
ReplyDeleteSi egro,
Fortibuses in ero.
Nobili, demis trucs.
Sowatis inem?
Cowsen ducs.
Don't have the Latin handy, but this line from Ausonius seems somewhat related:
ReplyDelete"...for it is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet rather drunk."