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ENCOURAGEMENT TO EXILE by TITUS PETRONIUS NIGER

First Line: LEAVE THINE OWN HOME, O YOUTH, SEEK DISTANT SHORES!
Last Line: WHO DISEMBARKS, FEARLESS, ON ALIEN SANDS.
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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