To my dear friend M. J. Jackson,<br> a disparager of this treatise by A. M. Juster

Poems

September 2010

To my dear friend M. J. Jackson,
a disparager of this treatise

Burke

was right!

Roaming quiet country in broad, open fields,
   We both would watch the constellations play
Their light on vaults of frigid night as stars appeared
   Throughout the quenching of the fading day.
We watched. This poet, when we had no light,
   Would watch it set upon the Romans’ sea
And, ever mindful Mother Earth had made him mortal,
   Supplied us timeless stars in poetry
To give clear warning to the people yet to come
   So no one had to trust the deities.
These holy songs of Heaven that embrace the cosmos
   Were then afflicted with indignities,
And though the wreckage ended up upon our shores,
   ...

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A. M. Juster's complete translation of Horace's Satires was recently published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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