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45. FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE.
“INTEGER VITÆ SCELERISQUE PURUS.”
The pure of life, and free from ill,
Wants not the Moorish dart to kill;
Nor, innocent, O Fuscus, needs
The quiver, stuff'd with poison'd reeds:
Wants not the Moorish dart to kill;
Nor, innocent, O Fuscus, needs
The quiver, stuff'd with poison'd reeds:
Whether o'er Syrtes' burning sands,
Or o'er th' inhospitable lands
Of Caucasus about to go,
Or where Hydaspes' stream doth flow:
Or o'er th' inhospitable lands
Of Caucasus about to go,
Or where Hydaspes' stream doth flow:
For me a wolf, i' th' Sabine shade,
Whilst to my Lalage I play'd,
And, thoughtless, o'er my bounds had gone,
Fled, as unarm'd I wander'd on:
Whilst to my Lalage I play'd,
And, thoughtless, o'er my bounds had gone,
Fled, as unarm'd I wander'd on:
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Not military Daunia yet
So vast a monster could beget;
Nor Juba's Mauritania feed,
The thirsty land, where lions breed.
So vast a monster could beget;
Nor Juba's Mauritania feed,
The thirsty land, where lions breed.
Place me in hopeless regions, where
No tree is nurs'd i' th' Summer's air;
A portion of the World, which storm,
And angry Jupiter deform:
No tree is nurs'd i' th' Summer's air;
A portion of the World, which storm,
And angry Jupiter deform:
Place me beneath the burning car
Of Phœbus, where no houses are:
Yet shall my theme, and passion be,
Soft speaking, smiling Lalage!
Of Phœbus, where no houses are:
Yet shall my theme, and passion be,
Soft speaking, smiling Lalage!
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