NON EBUR<\/p>\n
Ceilings of gold or ivory<\/p>\n
do not glisten in my house.<\/p>\n
No beams of Mount Hymettus<\/p>\n
rest on columns quarried in farthest Africa.<\/p>\n
Nor have I, an unknown heir,<\/p>\n
inherited the Palace of Attalus<\/p>\n
nor do honorable clients<\/p>\n
spin for me the Spartan purple.<\/p>\n
But integrity I do possess<\/p>\n
and a considerable vein of talent; and though I be poor<\/p>\n
the rich man seeks me out. Hence for nothing more do I the gods implore<\/p>\n
Nor greater gifts demand<\/p>\n
of my powerful friend.<\/p>\n
So, with my Sabine farm alone<\/p>\n
I am sufficiently content.<\/p>\n
Day is driven on by day.<\/p>\n
Each new moon hastens to wane.<\/p>\n
And you, on the very verge of the grave<\/p>\n
are letting out contracts for cutting marble,<\/p>\n
constructing palaces, unmindful of the tomb;<\/p>\n
and not rich enough<\/p>\n
with your estates on the mainland,<\/p>\n
eagerly building along the beach of the sea . . .<\/p>\n
Why are you ever shoving back your neighbor\u2019s boundaries?<\/p>\n
Dispossessing husband and wife,<\/p>\n
each bearing in their bosom<\/p>\n
their household gods and squalid offspring<\/p>\n
And yet no home or hall<\/p>\n
More certainly awaits the wealthy Master<\/p>\n
than the end destined by rapacious Orcus.<\/p>\n
Why strive for more?<\/p>\n
The earth opens alike for the poor<\/p>\n
and for the sons of Kings,<\/p>\n
Nor has the ferryman of Ocrus, bribed by gold,<\/p>\n
brought back to life Promethius, the cunning.<\/p>\n
And Tantalus the Proud, and the sons of Tantalus<\/p>\n
he yet imprisons. And summoned or unsummoned,<\/p>\n
he listens to the poor man<\/p>\n
arrived at the term of his travail.<\/p>\n
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