Advising ChloE Horace: Book I, Ode 23

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"Vitas hinnuleo me similis, ChloË——"

Why shun me, my ChloË? Nor pistol nor bowie
Is mine with intention to kill.
And yet like a llama you run to your mamma;
You tremble as though you were ill.
No lion to rend you, no tiger to end you,
I'm tame as a bird in a cage.
That counsel maternal can run for The Journal
You get me, I guess.... You're of age.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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