"Thracian filly, tell me why You look askance when I come nigh, And flee unkind, as though I knew Naught of how to manage you? Should it please me, truth to tell, I could bridle you right well, And take and ride you hand on rein Up the course and down again; And if instead you graze your fill And frisk it in the meadow still, 'Tis but because a man like me Knows how long to leave you free."
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Anacreon, in Heraclitus, sec. 4 (tr. J. M. Edmonds, 1931)
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