Something Else Again

Book IV, Ode 11

"_Est mihi nonum superantis annum----_"

Phyllis, I've a jar of wine, (Alban, B. C. 49), Parsley wreaths, and, for your tresses, Ivy that your beauty blesses.

Shines my house with silverware; Frondage decks the altar stair-- Sacred vervain, a device For a lambkin's sacrifice.

Up and down the household stairs What a festival prepar...