Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO HIS WIFE, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS


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TO HIS WIFE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be life what it has been, and let us hold
Last Line: Count not the years, but take of each its boon.
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


BE life what it has been, and let us hold,
Dear wife, the names we each gave each of old;
And let not time work change upon us two,
I still your boy, and still my sweetheart you.
What though I outlive Nestor? and what though
You in your turn a Sibyl's years should know?
Ne'er let us know old age or late or soon;
Count not the years, but take of each its boon.





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