William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
To His SoulMatthew Prior (16641721)
Translated from the Latin of Hadrian
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Must we no longer live together?
And dost thou prune thy trembling wing,
To take thy flight thou know’st not whither?
Lie all neglected, all forgot;
And pensive, wavering, melancholy,
Thou dread’st and hop’st thou know’st not what.