Horace: Epode 25 <br /> <br />"Nox erat et cælo fulgebat Luna sereno---" <br /> <br /> <br />How sweet the moonlight sleeps," I quoted, <br />"Upon this bank!" that starry night-- <br />The night you vowed you'd be devoted-- <br />I'll tell the world you held me tight. <br /> <br />The night you said until Orion <br />Should cease to whip the wintry sea, <br />Until the lamb should love the lion, <br />You would, you swore, be all for me. <br /> <br />Some day Neæra, you'll be sorry. <br />No mollycoddle swain am I. <br />I shall not sit and pine, by gorry! <br />Because you're with some other guy! <br /> <br />No, I shall turn my predilection <br />Upon some truer, fairer Jane; <br />And all your prayer and genuflection <br />For my return shall be in vain. <br /> <br />And as for you, who choose to sneer, O, <br />Though deals in lands and stocks you swing, <br />Though handsome as a movie hero, <br />Though wise you are, and everything; <br /> <br />Yet, when the loss of her you're mourning, <br />How I shall laugh at all your woe! <br />How I'll remind you of this warning, <br />And laugh, "Ha! ha! I told you so!"<br /><br />Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-last-laugh-2/
