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IN CHLORIN / Horace: Book III, Ode 15. / "_Uxor pauperis Ibyci_ -- "
Your conduct, naughty Chloris, is / Not just exactly Horace's / Ideal of a lady / At the shady / Time of life; / You mustn't throw your soul away / On foolishness, like Pholoe -- / Her days are folly-laden -- / She's a maiden, / You're a wife.
Your daughter, with propriety, / May look for male society, / Do one thing and another / In which mother / Shouldn't mix; / But revels Bacchanalian / Are -- or should be -- quite alien / To you a married person, / Something worse'n / Forty-six!
Yes, Chloris, you cut up too much, / You love the dance and cup too much, / Your years are quickly flitting -- / To your knitting, / Right about! / Forget the incidental things / That keep you from parental things -- / The World, the Flesh, the Devil, / On the level, / Cut 'em out!