January’s poem
Ovid, Metamorphoses, book I, lines 76–78:
A living creature wants, to rule all made before;
So man began to be.
Translated by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Historie of the World in Five Bookes (1614)
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More holy than the rest, and understanding more,A living creature wants, to rule all made before;
So man began to be.
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Translated by Sir Walter Raleigh
The Historie of the World in Five Bookes (1614)