Drive the tempest from your door,
Blaze on blaze your hearthstone piling,
And unmeasured goblets pour
Brimful, high with nectar smiling.
Then, beneath your poet's head
Be a downy pillow spread.
--Alcaeus, 610 B.C.
Translated from Greek by John Hermann Merivale
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