Carmina

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When heed’st thou not deserting me (Sad me!) in sorest scathe,
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Ah say whate’er shall humans do? in whom shall man show faith?
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For sure thou bad’st me safely yield my spirit (wretch!) to thee,
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Lulling my love as though my life were all security.
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The same now dost withdraw thyself and every word and deed
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Thou suffer’st winds and airy clouds to sweep fromout thy head.
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But an forget thou, mindful be the Gods, and Faith in mind
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Bears thee, and soon shall gar thee rue the deeds by thee design’d.
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Sirmio! of Islands and Peninsulas
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Eyelet, and whatsoe’er in limpid meres
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And vasty Ocean either Neptune owns,
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Thy scenes how willing-glad once more I see,
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At pain believing Thynia and the Fields
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Bithynian left, I’m safe to sight thy Site.
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Oh what more blessèd be than cares resolved,
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When mind casts burthen and by peregrine
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Work over wearied, lief we hie us home
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To lie reposing in the longed-for bed!
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This be the single meed for toils so triste.
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Hail, O fair Sirmio, in thy lord rejoice:
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And ye, O’ waves of Lybian Lake be glad,
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And laugh what laughter pealeth in my home.
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ILL love my Ipsithilla sweetest,
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My desires and my Wit the meetest,
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So bid me join thy nap o’ noon!
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Then (after bidding) add the boon
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Undraw thy threshold-bolt none dare,
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Lest thou be led afar to fare;
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Nay bide at home, for us prepare
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Nine-fold continuous love-delights.
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But aught do thou to hurry things,
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For dinner-full I lie aback,
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And gown and tunic through I crack.
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OH, best of robbers who in Baths delight,
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Vibennius, sire and son, the Ingle hight,
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(For that the father’s hand be fouler one
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And with his anus greedier is the Son)
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Why not to banishment and evil hours
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Haste ye, when all the parent’s plundering powers
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Are public knowledge, nor canst gain a Cent
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Son! by the vending of thy pilèd vent.
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Diana’s faith inbred we bear
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Youths whole of heart and maidens fair,
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Let boys no blemishes impair,
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And girls of Dian sing!
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O great Latonian progeny,
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Of greatest Jove descendancy,
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Whom mother bare ’neath olive-tree,
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Deep in the Delian dell;
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That of the mountains reign thou Queen
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And forest ranges ever green,
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And coppices by man unseen,
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And rivers resonant.
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Thou art Lucína, Juno hight
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By mothers lien in painful plight,
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Thou puissant Trivia and the Light
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Bastard, yclept the Lune.
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Thou goddess with thy monthly stage,
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The yearly march doth mete and guage
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An d rustic peasant’s messuage,
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Dost brim with best o’ crops,
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Be hailed by whatso name of grace,
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Please thee and olden Romulus’ race,
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Thy wonted favour deign embrace,
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And save with choicest aid.
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Now to that tender bard, my Comrade fair,
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(Cecilius) say I, Paper go, declare,
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Verona must we make and bid to New
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Comum’s town-walls and Larian Shores adieu;
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For I determined certain fancies he
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Accept from mutual friend to him and me.
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Wherefore he will, if wise, devour the way,
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Though the blonde damsel thousand times essay
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Recall his going and with arms a-neck
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A-winding would e’er seek his course to check;
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A girl who (if the truth be truly told)
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Dies of a hopeless passion uncontroul’d;
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For since the doings of the Díndymus-dame,
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By himself storied, she hath read, a flame
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Wasting her inmost marrow-core hath burned.
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I pardon thee, than Sapphic Muse more learn’d,
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Damsel: for truly sung in sweetest lays
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Was by Cecilius Magna Mater’s praise.
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Volusius’ Annals, paper scum-bewrayed!
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Fulfil that promise erst my damsel made;
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Who vowed to Holy Venus and her son,
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Cupid, should I return to her anon
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And cease to brandish iamb-lines accurst,
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The writ selected erst of bards the worst
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She to the limping Godhead would devote
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With slowly-burning wood of illest note.
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This was the vilest which my girl could find
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With vow facetious to the Gods assigned.
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Now, O Creation of the azure sea,
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Holy Idalium, Urian havenry
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Haunting, Ancona, Cnidos’ reedy site,
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Amathus, Golgos, and the tavern hight
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Durrachium-thine Adrian abode—
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The vow accepting, recognize the vowed
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As not unworthy and unhandsome naught.

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