Again the well-known Zephyrs I salute,

And the renewed joys of life again

Breathe forth.

VI.

You, O day, floating on early wing,
You banish heavy clouds: now3 infant3
Pleasure is redolent of fresh roses in a

Second spring.

VII.

One on serious cares of business

Clings intent; returning3 liberty3

Loosens for him the chains of graver2 hour2

With kind3 influence.*

VIII.

Another dis-dains the limits of too narrow

Reign,' seeking in unknown region
Credulously a fairer shining sun;

Bold he flies,

IX.

Often looking with eye turned-back:

The scarce breathing gale thunders3 to him
A sound of peril2; pleasure mixed with

Fear is stealthily snatched.

X.

To them is genial day, and strength of freshf
Spirit easy slumbers of serene

Night; to them Aurora returning opens
Pleasing light.

* Numen. † Vegetus.

Ah! little cautions against future lot,

They sport as victims easily-learning* amusements:

The care of fleeting day passes

With no sad augury!

* Dociles.

ALCAICS.

EXERCISE XXV.

PAUPERTATIS HONESTE LAUS.

I.

That3-man whom thou, O Poverty, beneath = a cottage Shall have nourished, in chaste bosom embracing him, Neither will the breeze1 call to the waves, Meditating treachery, as a sailor;

II.

Nor will reward, bought with crime, clothe him
A Prince' in purple; nor will martial trophies,3
Nor the leafy chaplet1* of olive

Crown him a general2; but a peaceful† life

III.

Will consign him to Faunus, and to rustic dances,
And the vale, familiar guardian of his boyhood,

Will soothe the hoar1-head of old age

And its placid wrinkles.

IV.

O Nymph, tenant of sacred woods,

With thee, around the haunts of birds,

=

And the fountains' sleepless whispers
May I pass my time, and the Dryads' seats

V.

Beneath impending cover of rocks

At Eve may I revisit, and regardless

Of splendour, and forgetting care

Enjoy a lot preferable to that of kings.

VI.

As the golden ages painted the=

Gods, and thou, Pelasgia,

Are related to have strengthened youth,
The nation leading† a rude life.t

VII.

Happy he, amid lovely retreats,

Who flourishes in peace! whether lying on the ground He runs over his ancestors' names1

Perpetuated on the

VIII.

Or devoted to holiday ease,

beeches ;

Gathering myrtles and fragile roses,

With the blushing flower1 he crowns
His humble Lares, a lowly Priest.

IX.

Hences pastures moist with heaven's dews,
And garden breathing odours, and trees

Hanging from the hill(top), and grottoes
Roofed with living pumice-stones,

X.

Salute the year's

changes,

Ministers of crops.

The rich field swells,

And the oak beneath a favouring sky

Crowned with new leaf blooms.

* Quo more.

Agito.

Cultus.

§ Ergò.

XI.

Therefore he now providently* commits2

His toils' to the fields, or driving his well-fedt
Sheep through meadows with a reed

Seeks shrubs quivering§ in the winds.

XII.

Now he cheats = acres of their crops,
And grudges fruit to fat boughs;

Or gathering|| the wealth of sunny
Spring, carries fresh strawberries,

XIII.

Or garlands, Flora's gifts, to2 Phyllis'
Milkpails, the woods and flock witnessing:

Nor does time1 consume1 his loves

Engraven3 on the bark3 and mindful stone.

XIV.

O what is more joyous than an open heart!
For few things are wanting to those seeking few things:
And cares fly-from the straw-thatched**

Penates to-visit3 tyrants.3

XV.

Beneath anyt† shade one may‡‡ entrust hopes

And fears to the passing breezes,

Nor does the

beam of the (4) hastening hour

Escape§§ those who3-take-no-care|||| for the future.