For I, Who Hold Sage Homer's Rule The Best, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Going Guest.

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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Satire ii, Book ii, Line 159

Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star.
Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul.
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.

For I, Who Hold Sage Homer's Rule The Best, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Going Guest.

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