"Oh moustache, long-lamented, that hast like autumn leaves flown with North wind's withering breath, dost thou remember the sweet immovable upper lip that once wast thy mooring and thy home? Now thy fibrous body, forgotten membra disjecta, that from the cruel razor's unrepentant touch do fall as mute witnesses all from thine too-brief life but to lay in bitter and undeserved Oblivion."
Sardonicus Rictus, from 'De Rerum Mustax', 33 BCE. ('Ode to Fallen Moustache' written for his well-shaven comrade Gregorius Seelius, Praetor Romanus).
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Sardonicus Rictus, from 'De Rerum Mustax', 33 BCE.
('Ode to Fallen Moustache' written for his well-shaven comrade Gregorius Seelius, Praetor Romanus).
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