Wykehamist Pattern Poetry August 2021 | Page 65

RIGHT SIDE Te repetunt Musae Phoebum , te sydera solem Lumina sint flammis ut renovanda tuis .
The Muses seek you as their Phoebus , the stars as their sun , so that their lights may be renewed by your flames .
BOTTOM RIGHT At quae digna satis tibi Iacobe Tenelli olivae ramuli .
But the things which are sufficiently worthy of you , James , are the tender little branches of the olive .
BOTTOM LEFT Dona ferre paramus ecce pauca
Nostrae Minervae munera .
Look , we are preparing to bring a few gifts , the gifts of our Minerva .
PAGES LEFT PAGE Quattuor regni Lumina facti Spatium chartae Num breve nostrae Capiat parvi aut Pagina libri ? Capit tam magnum Stellula solem .
Surely the short space of our paper or the page of a small book is not to contain the four lights of the kingdom you have made ? But a tiny star receives the sun , great as it is .
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