SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN
Present Imperative
Horace: Book I, Ode 11
"Tu ne quaesieris—scire nefas—quem mihi; quem tibi——"
AD LEUCONOEN
Nay, query not, Leuconoë, the finish of the fable;
Eliminate the worry as to what the years may hoard!
You only waste your time upon the Babylonian Table—
(Slang for the Ouija board).
And as to whether Jupiter, the final, unsurpassed one,
May add a lot of winters to our portion here below,
Or this impinging season is to be our very last one—
Really, I'd hate to know.