found in "Tragedy, The Greeks, and Us" by Simon Critchley

found in "Tragedy, The Greeks, and Us" by Simon Critchley

possibly the source for "carpe diem" usually translated as seize the day here the translator has chosen the more equivalent expression that carpe has to it usage that of cultivation.

Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis,
qui feros cultus hominum recentum
voce formasti catus et decorae
    more palaestrae,

et canam, magni Iovis et deorum
nuntium curvageque lyrae parentem,
callidum quidquid placuit iocoso
    condere furto.

te, boves olim nisi reddidisses
per dolum amotas, puerum minaci
voce dum terret, viduus pharetra
    risit Apollo.

quin et Atridas duce te superbos
Ilio dives Priamus relicto
Thessalosque ignis et iniqua Troiae
    castra fefellit.

tu pias laetis animas reponis
sedibus virgaque levem coerces
aurea turbam, superis deorum
    gratus et imis.

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leeuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quicquid erit, pati,
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
spem lognam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

an offering of supplication and honor from me

Partially because of the visuals and aesthetic of the language. But partially because in a way the show follows the theme too. Blake regarded human imagination as the essential divine quality by which God manifested himself in Man. And that is what MDR do.

This is just a quick thought but I wanted to put it out there.

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This was originally posted by @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

The original post was a pdf of the excerpt, and I prefer the poems here to be easily copy-able and paste-able and formatted the same. So I have transposed it here to text and followed the formatting that I have set forth, and I have added the personal note left by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com above. And I have sent a PM to SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com saying they are free to make another post using the above formatting.

Great. But this sub is for text poems so that people can cut and paste. I'll transcribe it and add it and reference you.