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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT IS MAN?, by PALLADAS Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember, o man, how your father made you, his son!
Last Line: Your life in unquenchable lust and a drop of shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Men
First Line: Remember, o man, how your father made you, his son!
Last Line: Your life in unquenchable lust and a drop of shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades
Subject(s): Men
REMEMBER, O man, how your father made you, his son!
Then you will cease from your boasting and put it by.
In Plato's dreams was this idle fancy begun --
He called you immortal, a creature sprung from the sky.
You are made of dust. Are you proud of that? So a man
Might deceitfully dress up the truth in a lordlier name.
But if you would know what you are, why then, you began
Your life in unquenchable lust and a drop of shame.
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