| Front | Ernest Dowson - Non Sum Qualis... What does the title mean?x2 |
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| Back | •'I am not as I was in the reign of good Cinara' •He's paying hommage to Horace's 'Odes' where Horace was imploring Venus not to continue her erotic and romantic pursuit of him any more since as he is too old and tired for her - she should be with someone younger. But, in a twist, he admits that he loves a young male instead => same sentiment of unattainable love. |
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