et reserare fores nolebat carcere clausis?'. quicumque imperio gentes rexere tyranni, quisque suis recubant in sedibus, incluta turba. tu ramale autem velut execrabile busto eicere, ut caesi vestis gladioque forati,

quem barathri saxa obruerunt, vel quale cadaver protritum pedibus. communi sorte carebis funeris ob patriae cladem atque indigna tuorum excidia: incesti nusquam stirps nomen habebit.

XLVIII.

Huc, Vestalis, ades, pio
corde seria cogitans,
casta, sobria, pervicax,
os severa, nigerrimo
palla operta colore:
Ista nobilis instita
fluctuante superbiat,
Cypriaeque umeros tibi
pulla rica coerceat
sindonis pudibundos.
Perge, sed solito statu,
sed pari pede prodeas,
os gerens meditantis et
colloquentia cum polo
vulta, plena animae vi.
Tota mens ibi sit, sacroque

illigata furore, fi

marmor inscia: mox humum

fixa lumine plumbeo

with a sad leaden downward cast

thou fix them on the earth as fast.

and bring with thee calm Peace and Quiet, spare Fast that oft with gods doth diet,

and hears the muses in a ring

aye round about Jove's altar sing.

and add to these retired Leisure

that in trim gardens takes his pleasure; but first and chiefest with thee bring him that yon soars on golden wing,

guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, the cherub Contemplation.

XLIX.

The winds are high on Helle's wave, as on that night of stormy water, when love who sent forgot to save the young, the beautiful, the brave, the lonely hope of Sestos' daughter. oh, when at night along the sky her turret-torch was blazing high, though rising gale and breaking foam and shrieking sea-birds warned him home, and clouds aloft and tides below

with signs and sounds forbade to go,

he could not see, he would not hear

tristis intueare.

Paxque blanda, Quies, simulque
Abstinentia eat tenax,

caelitum hospita quae frequens
audit Aonidum choros
psallere ad Iovis aram.
Adice his latebras amans
otium quod in hortulis
elegantibus ambulat :

prima sed tamen adsit o,
sed potissima tecum,
Quae per aethera pinnulis

ecce tollitur aureis,

igneo solium rotans

axe, dia Theoria,

diva dia dearum.

XLIX.

Aura super fluctus Helles furit acris, ut illa nocte procellosas saeviit inter aquas,

misit ubi iuvenem, quamvis servare per undas quem iuvenem misit non meminisset amor. et tamen ille annis formaque animisque vigebat, spes desolatae Sestidos una nurus.

o ubi de turri flagrabat in aethera noctu taeda puellaris, saeviat aura licet,

spumescat licet unda salo, volucresque marinae raucisonis iubeant questibus ire domum, desuper et nubes, infra licet aestus aquarum mille vetet signis pergere, mille sonis, nec spectare potest nec vult audire sonosve

or sound or sign foreboding fear;
his eye but saw that light of love,
the only star it hailed above;
his ear but rang with Hero's song,
'ye waves, divide not lovers long.'
that tale is old, but love anew

may nerve young hearts to prove as true.

L.

While virgin spring by Eden's flood
unfolds her tender mantle green,
or pranks the sod in frolic mood,
or tunes Eolian strains between :
While summer with a matron grace
retreats to Dryburgh's cooling shade,
yet oft delighted stops to trace
the progress of the spikey blade :
While autumn benefactor kind
by Tweed erects his aged head
and sees with self-approving mind
each creature on his bounty fed:
While maniac winter rages o'er
the hills whence classic Yarrow flows,
rousing the turbid torrent's roar
or sweeping, wild, a waste of snows:
So long, sweet poet of the year,

shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won,

while Scotia with exulting tear

proclaims that Thomson is her son.

signave venturos vaticinata metus,

nil oculis usquam nisi fax ea lucet amoris, stellarum supero cognita sola polo,

non nisi vox Herus tonat auribus 'unda, fideles invida nolito dissociare diu.'

quod memoro vetus est, sed amor iuvenalia forsan roboret ad talem nunc quoque corda fidem.

L.

Virgineus dum veris honor viridantis amictus pandet ad Edenii flumina molle decus,

aut festivus humum variabit, et aelinon auris

interdum Aeoliis emodulatus erit:

dumque aestas matrona decens captanda sub umbris frigora deveniet, Durioburge, tuis,

saepe tamen laetans sistet, segetisque notabit
herba teres quantas polliceatur opes:

dum bona diffundens autumnus munera surget
grandaevo Tevidae vertice propter aquas,
atque hilari cum corde animalia cuncta videbit,
copia quam dederit pascat ut omne genus:
donec hiemps vaesana iugis bacchabitur illis
unde Heliconiasin cognita Girva fluit,
nunc acuens lutei torrentis murmura, verrens
stragem indigestae mox furibunda nivis:
perpetuo, vates anni numerose, virebunt
quae bene promeritus laurea serta geris,
Scotiaque intererit lacrimaque insignis ovanti
edicet subolem Tityron esse suam.