2l8 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Cantabitis, Arcades, inquit, 

 Montibus hasc veftris. Soli cantare periti, 

 Arcades. O ir.ihi turn quàm moUiter ofla quiefcent, 

 Veftra meos olim fi fiftula dicat amores ! 

 Atque utinam ex vobis unus, veftrique fuiffèm 

 Aut cuflos giegis, aut maturae vinitor uvae * ! 



** You fliall fing," fays he, " O ye Arcadians, 

 ** thefe plaintive flrains of mine, on your own 

 " mountains. Arcadians, you alone are ikilled in 

 " fong. O, how foftly (hall my bones repofe, if 

 *' your pipe (hall one day immortalize my unfor- 

 ** tunate loves ! And would to Heaven I had been 

 *' one of you, though in the humble ftation of a 

 ** fliepherd's boy, or of a grape- gatherer in the 

 " vineyard.'* 



Gal/us, the fon of a Roman Conful, in the age 

 of ÂitgiiJîiiSy confiders the condition of the Arca- 

 dian fwains as fo enviable, that he prefumes not 

 to afpire to the felicity of being among them a 



* To your lov'd mountains, and your verdant plains. 

 Repeat, Arcadians, thefe my love-lorn ftrains. 

 In magic numbers you alone excel. 

 LuU'd to foft reft my Iifelefs limbs fhall dweU, 

 Should your fweet notes immortalize my flame, 

 And give, to Galhis dead, a deathlefs name. 

 Oh, had I been, of you, fome fhepherd's fwain ! » 



Or cuU'd the grape j or reaped the golden grain Î 



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