Ovid, Varro, Virgil, Horace, The Nuremberg Chronicle
Ovid, Varro, Virgil, Horace, The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Poesy, please lead us not astray
    But to us, for all time
Whether we are wrong or right
    descants left behind
Meta-morphs in plain sight
    mellow on the vine
Woven trials and tragedies
    temper our pattern ryhme
Verse letters, chats, witty attacks
    salves of twinkling lives
Poems weigh these more, with grace galore
    for the sieves are human-kind