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Bring in great logs and let them lie,

To make a solid core of heat;

Be cheerful-minded, talk and treat Of all things ev'n as he were by:

We keep the day with festal cheer,

With books and music. Surely we
Will drink to him whate'er he be,

And sing the songs he loved to hear.

Crateras ignis cor solidum, graves

Repone truncos. Jamque doloribus

Loquare securus fugatis

Quæ socio loquereris illo;

Hunc dedicamus lætitiæ diem

Lyræque musisque. Illius, illius

Da, quicquid audit: nec silebunt
Qui numeri placuere vivo.

LAURA MATILDA'S DIRGE.

FROM REJECTED ADDRESSES.'

BALMY Zephyrs, lightly flitting,

Shade me with your azure wing;

On Parnassus' summit sitting,

Aid me, Clio, while I sing.

Softly slept the dome of Drury

O'er the empyreal crest,

When Alecto's sister-fury

Softly slumb'ring sunk to rest.

Lo! from Lemnos limping lamely,
Lags the lowly Lord of Fire,

Cytherea yielding tamely

To the Cyclops dark and dire.

ΝΑΝΙΑ.

QUOT odoriferi volitatis in aëre venti, Cæruleum tegmen vestra sit ala mihi:

Tuque sedens Parnassus ubi caput erigit ingens, Dextra veni, Clio: teque docente canam.

Jam suaves somnos Tholus affectare Theatri
Cœperat, igniflui trans laqueare poli:

Alectûs consanguineam quo tempore Erinnyn,

Suave soporatam, cœpit adire quies.

Lustra sed ecce labans claudo pede Lemnia linquit

Luridus (at lente lugubriterque) Deus:

Amisit veteres, amisit inultus, amores;

Teter habet Venerem terribilisque Cyclops.

Clouds of amber, dreams of gladness,

Dulcet joys and sports of youth,

Soon must yield to haughty sadness;

Mercy holds the veil to Truth.

See Erostratus the second

Fires again Diana's fane;

By the Fates from Orcus beckon'd, Clouds envelop Drury Lane.

Where is Cupid's crimson motion?

Billowy ecstasy of woe,

Bear me straight, meandering ocean,

Where the stagnant torrents flow.

Blood in every vein is gushing,

Vixen vengeance lulls my heart;

See, the Gorgon gang is rushing!

Never, never let us part.

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