To His Serving Boy by William Makepeace Thackeray

Persicos odi
Puer, apparatus;
Displicent nexae
Philyra coronae:
Mitte sectari,
Rosa qua locorum
Sera moretur.

Simplici myrto
Nihil allabores
Sedulus, curo:
Neque te ministrum
Dedecet myrtus,
Neque me sub arcta
Vite bibentem.

More from William Makepeace Thackeray:

• Come To The Greenwood Tree
• To His Serving Boy
• A Tragic Story
• King Canute
• The Mahogany Tree
• Sorrows Of Werther