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Posted by on Mar 13, 2009 in other poets | 0 comments

The Wreckage of Wine

Item I give to Sire Denis
Hesselin, Elect of Paris
The fourteen hogsheads of Aulnis wine
I risked my neck to steal from Turgis
If he drinks enough of it to place
In jeopardy his good sense and reason
Then put water in the barrels
Wine wrecks many a happy home.

Francoise Villon
The testament 1014-1021
Gallway Kinnell, trans.

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