The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 52, December 29, 2002, Article 9

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  From Italy, Ferdinando Bassoli adds: "Please remind your
  gentle correspondent and associate Howard A.Daniel III that
  (as the old Horace said) "carmina non dant panem" (poetry
  doesn't bring bread) ...

  Ron Haller-Williams writes:  "There's an old Welsh folk song
  that may be relevant to the quote from Horace.  It translates
  thus:

       In the Vale of Llangollen the tale is told still
       Of a hapless old harper who lived on the hill
       Till his harp "bread and sup" could so seldom provide
       That in cold cruel want and starvation he died.
       Yet his funeral feast was so plenteous a store,
       'Twould have kept him alive for a twelvemonth or more!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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