From Epistle 1.1.(Poem)

From: TriQuarterly | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Ferry, David | Copyright information

TO HIS PATRON, MAECENAS

Listen to someone like me--

(What fighter in the dusty arena wouldn't

As soon be crowned with the wreath without the dust?)

Gold is worth more than silver, virtue's worth more

Than gold. Here is the way the moneymen talk,

Down by the Arch of Janus: "Citizens, listen,

Get money first, get virtue after that."

That's what you hear wherever you go these days.

"Su...

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