Sol 5.6

  1. O son of those for whom

    in “Has There Come,” praise came;

  2. who are the leaders whenever

    a matter grows intractable or defiant.

  3. Ringed round with silver—

    you sent it, O finest youth—

  4. as though it were goblets amid

    turquoise, as described;

  5. or the Pleiades, or strings

    of pearls—were those two to blossom.

  6. Your verse, and your prose too, have

    arrived—when has excellence ever so arrived?

Sol 5.6