Incipit
The Poetry Of The Month Content. An Epistle to Rheinhart Kleiner, Esq., Poet-Laureate, and Author of “Another Endless Day”. Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, Ut prisca gens moralium, Paterna rura bobus exercet suis. —Horace. Kleiner! in whose quick pulses wildly beat The youth’s ambition, and the lyrist’s heat, Whose questing spirit scorns our lowly flights, And dares the heavens for sublimer heights: It passion’s force will grant an hour’s relief, Attend a calmer song, nor nurse thy grief. What is true bliss? Must mortals ever yearn For stars beyond their reach, and vainly burn …
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