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WORKS AND DAYS: THE PATH TO VIRTUE by HESIOD

First Line: O! PERSES, FOOLISH PERSES, BOW THINE EAR
Last Line: LIKE THEE TO FLOURISH, HE WILL SPARE NO PAINS; %FOR LO! THE RICH VIRTUE AND GLORY GAINS

Poem Sources:

DAPHNE INTO LAUREL; TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL POETRY FROM CHAUCER TOTHE PRESENT.
  STONEMAN, RICHARD (ED.)
  (1982)
 



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