C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Reproaches to a Dissipated Student
By Egyptian Literature
Revised from the German of Professor Adolf Erman’s translation
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And givest thyself up to pleasure.
Thou goest from street to street;
Every evening the smell of beer,
The smell of beer, frightens people away from thee,
It bringeth thy soul to ruin.
That obeyeth on neither side.
Thou art as a shrine without its god,
As a house without bread.
And breaking through the paling:
People flee from thee,
Thou strikest them until they are wounded.
And that thou wouldst forswear the Shedeh drink!
That thou wouldst not put cool drinks within thy heart,
That thou wouldst forget the Tenreku.
To recite [?] to the pipe,
To intone to the lyre,
To sing to the harp,
[and generally to lead a life of dissipation.]