THE SYBARITES.
Valour, not ornament, Wins the life tournament.
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The silken Sybarites, we know, In their superfluous elegance, To measured music, swift or slow, Had trained their battle steeds to dance. 'Twas thus they fell before the flutes Of that sagacious Spartan crew, For with the caracoling brutes What could such dainty riders do? O tutors! nerve your pupils' hearts With energy for strenuous deeds, Or all your sciences and arts May prove but Sybaritic steeds. |
FRANCIS PERRIER THE ENGRAVER.
With our needs change our deeds.