READING THE AUGUSTANS


Enjoying the Latin's
Ovid, Horace,
Virgil and Propertius
prepared in a Golden Age for us
we turn to the Norton anthology's
pages with vindicated hope
on Swift,Dryden, Samuel Johnson
and a chorus of Pope,
with a courageous voice of travel
God unravels to fire his chips
set on the Iliad and Odyssey's ships
venturing out to the Dunciad's satire
in a glad pattern on Augustan lips.