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I wonder if you know a book,
well I'm sure many of you must,

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a book by Kenneth Rexroth called
Poems from the Greek Anthology.

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A wonderful book.

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Let me read two or
three poems from it.

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Here are two
epigrams by Martial.

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This one to his
girlfriend, Thais.

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Thais, he says, why do you
call me old and garrulous?

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I am just experienced
and smooth tongued.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Or this, Martial also.

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You are a stool pigeon
and a slanderer,

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a pimp and a cheat, a
pederast and a troublemaker.

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I can't understand, Vacerra,
why you don't have more money.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Or this wonderful
little poem I thought

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I'd never heard of before
I opened Rexroth's book.

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Poet named Palladas,
and he writes,

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I've sworn ten thousand times
to make no more epigrams.

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Every ass is my enemy now.

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But whenever I look
into your face,

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the old sickness overcomes me.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Ausonius.

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I used to tell you,
"Frances, we grow old.

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The years fly away.

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Don't be so private
with those parts.

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A chaste maid is an old maid."

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Unnoticed by your disdain,
old age crept close to us.

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Those days are gone past recall.

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And now you come,
penitent and crying

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over your old lack of courage,
over your present lack

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of beauty.

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It's all right.

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Closed in your arms, we'll
share our smashed delights.

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It's give and take now.

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It's what I wanted,
if not what I want.

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