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ODE XLII.
[I love the choirs of Bacchus gay]
I love the choirs of Bacchus gay,
I love upon the lute to play,
Drinking with a gentle youth:
But what delights me most, in truth,
Is with a virgin to advance,
In the soft and winding dance,
When around her brows she sets
The hyacinthine coronets.
I love upon the lute to play,
Drinking with a gentle youth:
But what delights me most, in truth,
Is with a virgin to advance,
In the soft and winding dance,
When around her brows she sets
The hyacinthine coronets.
Envy to me is hardly known,
My heart with envy shall not groan:
The arrows of that tongue I fly,
Which is in love with calumny;
Let not such approach me nigh!
Wars, that in our cups are made,
This is the vile Thracian's trade:
My heart with softer thoughts is sway'd,
Drinking in the feast of love:
With a virgin let me move,
With a virgin, whose soft breast
Hardly is by love exprest,
Dancing to the wiry song:
Come, O dearest, come along!
Could we to Nestor's age prolong
Our life, that life would not be long.
My heart with envy shall not groan:
The arrows of that tongue I fly,
Which is in love with calumny;
Let not such approach me nigh!
Wars, that in our cups are made,
This is the vile Thracian's trade:
My heart with softer thoughts is sway'd,
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With a virgin let me move,
With a virgin, whose soft breast
Hardly is by love exprest,
Dancing to the wiry song:
Come, O dearest, come along!
Could we to Nestor's age prolong
Our life, that life would not be long.
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