Medulla Poetarum Romanorum Or, the Most Beautiful and Instructive Passages of the Roman Poets. Being a Collection, (Disposed under proper Heads,) Of such Descriptions, Allusions, Comparisons, Characters, and Sentiments, as may best serve to shew the Religion, Learning, Politicks, Arts, Customs, Opinions, Manners, and Circumstances of the Antients. With Translations of the same in English Verse. By Mr. Henry Baker |
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Equinox.
When Libra weighs the Hours in equal Scales,Nor Day on Night, nor Night on Day prevails:
For Work, and Rest, when equal Times are made,
The World enjoying equal Light and Shade.—
But when the genial Heat began to shine,
With stronger Beams in Aries' vernal Sign,
Again the golden Day resum'd it's Right,
And rul'd in just Equation with the Night.—
The Sun, returning, in his yearly Race,
To Cancer's Sign, meets Aries midst the Space,
Seated between the Point from whence he bends
His upward Course, and that in which he ends.
There plac'd as Umpire in the middle Way,
O'er all the Globe he equals Night and Day.
To Cancer's Sign, meets Aries midst the Space,
Seated between the Point from whence he bends
His upward Course, and that in which he ends.
There plac'd as Umpire in the middle Way,
O'er all the Globe he equals Night and Day.
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