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To MANLIUS TORQUATUS. Ode VII.
All things change in time, therefore he should live chearfully.
Leaf-dress doth Trees adorn.
Earth changes proves and Floods, from wilder race
Recall'd their Chancels trace.
AGLAIA dares now nak'd with Sisters twain,
And Nymphs dance round the Plain.
The Year forbids thee hope perpetual stay;
And th' Hour that whirls the Day:
Zeph'rus last cold allays; Summer the spring
Outwears, that perishing;
Then luscious Autumn pours her Fruits, and then
Dull Winter shews agen.
Yet nimble Moons their wained Loss repair,
But we when sunk, where are
ÆNEAS good, rich Tullus, Ancus thrust,
Prove empty shades and dust.
Who knows if Gods will joyn to this days Score
To Morrow's hours in store?
What now thou giv'st, through franker Mind dost use,
Some greedy Heirs but loose.
When th' art once dead, and MINOS Judg hath pass'd
Thy sentence clear, at last.
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Vertue shall free thee thence:
Not DIAN can Hippolitus revive
(Chast Youth) from dark reprieve:
Nor THESEUS spoil Lethæan bond, which does
Hold dear Perithous.
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