Friday, January 25, 2019

This is fantastic!


FRAGMENT OF A GREEK TRAGEDY
by A. E. Housman

CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come
To this well-nightingaled vicinity?
...
CHORUS: Go chase into the house a lucky foot.
And, O my son, be, on the one hand, good,
And do not, on the other hand, be bad;
For that is very much the safest plan.

That μέν/δέ right there is just the best. This is Prawne family level stuff.


From Twitter, someplace.

4 comments:

Peculiar said...

You go to Twitter for something I posted in 2004, probably with you in the room? This one's always worth revisiting, though.
https://odiousandpeculiar.blogspot.com/2004/03/never-may-cypris-for-her-seat-select.html

Odious said...

Oh Man, what troubles come
When the past we forget, whilst
Unknown the future must remain.
Those whose memory is weak
Like the taste of herring,
Ever shall they err, and, erring,
Justly be reviled.

Odious said...

Also, we've been at this a while, huh?

Peculiar said...

I had the same thought (at this a while, not the herring exactly).