Odes and Carmen Saeculare

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Bell & Daldy, 1892 - 144 pages
 

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Page 100 - Cease for a moment to admire The smoke, the wealth, the noise of Rome! In change e'en luxury finds a zest: The poor man's supper, neat, but spare, With no gay couch to seat the guest, Has smooth'd the rugged brow of care. Now glows the Ethiop maiden's sire; Now Procyon rages all ablaze; The Lion maddens in his ire, As suns bring back the sultry days: The shepherd with his weary sheep Seeks out the streamlet and the trees, Silvanus' lair: the still banks sleep Untroubled by the wandering breeze.
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Page xxvii - Eager for battle here Stood Vulcan, here matronal Juno, And with the bow to his shoulder faithful He who with pure dew laveth of Castaly His flowing locks, who holdeth of Lycia The oak forest and the wood that bore him, Delos' and Patara's own Apollo.* ix.
Page 83 - Bandusia's fount, in clearness crystalline, O worthy of the wine, the flowers we vow ! To-morrow shall be thine A kid, whose crescent brow " Is sprouting, all for love and victory, In vain ; his warm red blood, so early stirred, Thy gelid stream shall dye, Child of the wanton herd. " Thee the fierce Sirian star, to madness fired, Forbears to touch ; sweet cool thy waters yield To ox with ploughing tired, And flocks that range afield.

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