| memini, ut repente sic poeta prodirem. | I never fell asleep inside a bookshop;
| Heliconidasque pallidamque Pirenen | I come a semi-pagan to the feast.
| illis remitto quorum imagines lambunt | Who taught the parrot his cheery 'Ciao!'?
| hederae sequaces: ipse semipaganus | turned on the tape to imitate our speech?
| ad sacra uatum carmen adfero nostrum. | Who coached the voice of e-mail?
| quis expediuit psittaco suum 'chaere', | Some silicated PhD (no doubt). One glimpse
| picamque docuit uerba nostra conari? | of greenbacks, even a mirage, and crows rise
| magister artis ingenique largitor | from the trees. What won't they do for art?
| uenter, negatas artifex sequi uoces. |
| quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi, |
| coruos poetas et poetridas picas |
| cantare credas Pegaseium nectar. |
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