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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...Shall I to Carthage send again; Our every hope, it died, it died, When Asdrubal was slain, And with his fall our name's all-conquering star did wane." No peril, but the Claudian line Will front and master it, for they Are shielded by Jove's grace divine, And counsels sage alway Their hosts through war's rough paths successfully convey! ODE V. TO AUGUSTUS. 'ROM gods benign descended, thou Best guardian of the fates of Rome, Too long already from thy home Hast thou, dear chief, been absent now; Oh, then return, the pledge redeem, Thou gav'st the Senate, and once more Its light to all the land restore; For when thy face, like spring-tide's gleam, Its brightness on the people sheds, Then glides the day more sweetly by, A brighter blue pervades the sky, The sun a richer radiance spreads! As on her boy the mother calls, Her boy, whom envious tempests keep Beyond the vex'd Carpathian deep, From his dear home, till winter falls, And still with vow and prayer she cries, Still gazes on the winding shore, So yearns the country evermore For Caesar, with fond, wistful eyes. For safe the herds range field and fen, Full-headed stand the shocks of grain, Our sailors sweep the peaceful main, And man can trust his fellow-men. No more adulterers stain our heds, Laws, morals, both that taint efface, The husband in the child we trace, And close on crime sure vengeance treads. The Parthian, under Caesar's reign, Or icy Scythian, who can dread, Or all the tribes barbarian bred By Germany, or ruthless Spain? Now each man, basking on his slopes, Weds to hiswidow'd trees the vine, Then, as he gaily quaffs his wine, Salutes thee God of all his hopes; And prayers to thee devoutly sends, With deep libations; and, as Greece Ranks Castor, and great Hercules, Thy godship with his Lar...
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