- Seafons revolve, and disappear; Hours, quick fucceffion! come and fly: Thus Seafons foon revolve, and foon Night flies the glittering fhafts of Morn: When once frail Man resigns his breath, 15 20 25 Then bid adieu! to cares and ftrife; Thy foul let feftive pleasures chear : Infuse with mirth the cup of life, Nor heed thy disappointed heir. When gloomy Death shall interpose · His fhroud betwixt this fun and thee; And folemn voice, his juft decree ; 35 40 Infernis neque enim tenebris Diana pudicum i Liberat Hippolytum: Nec Lethæa valet Thefeus abrumpere caro Vincula Pirithoo Nor eloquence, nor fplendid birth, A Goddess great, a hero brave, Found love alike and friendship vain.: 45 H 2 ECLOGA DECIMA. EXTREMUM hunc, Arethufa, mihi concede laborem. Pauca meo Gallo, fed quæ legat ipfa Lycoris, Carmina funt dicenda: neget quis carmina Gallo? Sic tibi, quum fluctus fubterlabere Sicanos, Quæ nemora, aut qui vos faltus habuere, puellæ Ulla moram fecere, neque Aoniæ Aganippæ. Illum etiam lauri, etiam flevere myrice: VIRGI L. ECLOGUE X. INDULGE this laft short lay, Sicilian maid! What Mufe to Gallus can deny her strain ? So may thy ftreams thro' depths of Ocean glide, Begin. My Gallus! be thy hapless love 5 ΙΟ The theme; while browse my goats, the budding grove. Each fhrub, each laurel, dumb compaffion fhew; 15 |