Living
A Friend by Accident Met Socrates
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
A friend by accident met Socrates,
And hail'd, accosting him in words like these.
There are two miseries in human life,
To live without a dog and with a wife.
My Xanthos in his early doghood died,
Xanthippe sticks like pitch against thy side;
Men, were such wives unfaithful, might forgive,
But ah! they are so faithful, and they live.
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