Virtues

Rome’s most powerful man his notes taken

His privilege does not exempt him, he must awaken

Man is not built for comfort, to be warm

Man is he who flies best in storm

Impediment to action new action found

Virtue not man made his missives resound

To have no obligation yet duty feel

Like bronze must dream for want of steel

Man must against his laziness repeal repeal repeal

A fruit was man once, and layers he can peel

Back unto a pearl. Man, where his virtues are, act with zeal

9 responses to “Virtues”

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    Yankee Doodle

    A stark contrast to the late Alexandria kings, some of whom grew so fat they could not walk.

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    1. Oh, to be the sowish latter-day scion of some once-proud lineage. Sigh. Born cruelly too late.

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        Yankee Doodle

        Think you got it in ya? I suppose from a purely materialistic scale (ha?) there would be worse ways to live. Fed to your fart’s content, forbidden from toil and exercise, sheltered from anxiety.

        Τρύφη.

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      2. Hahaha I’m afraid I would be dead and bloated after the first post-crowning eel surfeit!

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        Yankee Doodle

        I’d imagine like any other form of “bodybuilding” there would be training and, what do they call it, progressive overload.

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      4. Structured eeling, got it. You have proven a wise councillor!

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        Yankee Doodle

        Sounds like something. Good luck.

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        Yankee Doodle

        One might glean also that a degree of carb loading was expected.

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      7. Yankee Doodle avatar
        Yankee Doodle

        They say they were blessed by Dionysus, but I wonder if Kirki had a say.

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