Encouragement to Exile
Petronius Arbiter (1st century)
Leave thine own home, O youth, seek distant shores!
For thee a larger order somewhere shines -
Fear not thy fate! For thee through unknown pines
Under the cold north wind the Danube pours;
For thee in Egypt the untroubled lands
Wait, and strange men behold the setting sun
Fall down and rise. Greatly be thou as one
Who disembarks, fearless, on alien lands.
