"Avis in ramo tecta laremque parat." STABAM multa movens, studio sic pastus inani, "Quanto oculis potior, quam traximus aure, voluptas." Meque simul volui sumtis quatere æthera pennis. "Fortunata nimis! Tibi retia nulla timori, Te nullus labor urget, agis nec in horrea messes; "The dawning morn with songs thou dost pre vent, Set'st hundred notes unto thy feathered crew, And thus they pass their youth in summer season, Then follow thee into a better region, Where winter's never felt by that sweet airy legion." ANNE BRADSTREET. Ante dies quam lucet ades, modulansque catervæ Dividis aligera centum discrimina vocum. Continuo ad cantum præludunt oribus illæ Suavisonis; peragunt opus instaurantque peracta. Hisque modis superante fovent æstate juventam. Te duce dein abeunt in fortunatius arvum Blanda volans legio, nulli penetrabile brumæ.” SWEET DAY. SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like seasoned timber, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives. GEO. HERBERT. "Parcent animæ fata superstiti." Lux dulcis, cui tanta quies et frigus et ardor, At flebit tua fata tamen sub vesperis horam Tuque, color cujus forti similisque minanti Temere tuentum lumina Præstringit; radice lates tenus usque sepulcro ; Et te perire fas, Rosa. Dulces Maia refers hilaris lucesque rosasque, Thesaurus ingens dulcium. Has sed in occasum me vergere disce magistro ; Perire nam fas omnia. Dulces ergo animæ demum et virtutis amantes Durant, ut ilex arida; In fumum ac cinerem vertatur mundus: at illæ Tunc enitescent clarius. |