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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENCOURAGEMENT TO EXILE, by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave thine own home, o youth, seek distant shores!
Last Line: Who disembarks, fearless, on alien sands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae
Subject(s): Independence; Youth
First Line: Leave thine own home, o youth, seek distant shores!
Last Line: Who disembarks, fearless, on alien sands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Petronius Arbiter; Tactitus Arbiter Elegantiae
Subject(s): Independence; Youth
LEAVE thine own home, O youth, seek distant shores!
For thee a larger order somewhere shines—
Fear not thy fate! For thee through unknown pines
Under the cold north-wind the Danube pours;
For thee in Egypt the untroubled lands
Wait, and strange men behold the setting sun
Fall down and rise. Greatly be thou as one
Who disembarks, fearless, on alien sands.
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