176 poetry, -^"g- 8. 



MARTIAL, LIB. XII. EPIG. XXXI. IMITATED. 



For the Bee. 



That grove, these fountains, this delightful /hade, 

 Jn summer's richest luxuries array'd j 

 The pear, the peach, the orange, and the vine, 

 These olives I so proudly mark as mine; 

 Those flow'ry meadows, yon transparenc pool. 

 The speckled trout, the plump delicious fowl, 

 Marcella give; from thirty years of lo'l. 

 When, frienJlefj, I return'd to see my nitive soil. 

 More priz'd, more precious far than all the rest. 

 She gave — that love which fires her godlike breait. 

 In my chill'd veins, tumultuous joy revives; 

 1 live but to adore tke first of wives. Amicuc. 



THE NINTH ELEGY OP BUCHANAN TRANSLATED. 



For the Bee. 



Air'b of disastrous love's insulting yoke, 



1 fled my mistrefs, and her bondage broke, 



But Cupid's jealous eye pursu'd my flight, 



•' And dare you, thus," he cried, " our empire slight''" 



He said, and wav'd his torch; the torch appears. 



Long since, alas I extinguiih'd by my tears. 



Tie angry boy intent on vengeance frown'd, 



And cast his rattling quiver on the ground. 



Instant at me he levell'd ev'ry dart, 



A thousand Ihafts are buried in my heart; 



Before, behind, his rage afsails me round. 



Till my \vholc4>''d; scerts one common wound. 



Mad that I bear his arrows undismay'd. 



He fli,es. dear Fanny! to demand jour aid ; 



Advancing boldly while asleep you lay. 



He caught your golden locks, and stole a hair away ; 



And as 1 laugh'd, — for who could fancy harms 



From such a source? he sternly baund my arms. 



While long and hard I strove, but strove in vain, 



He forc'd me back your captive to remain. 



F.v'n 1 who in contempt the tyrant held, 



And vaunted that his sway for ever w.is expell'd. 



Now feel the pangs of love revolt again. 



And a frcih fever boils in every vein; 



But you whom Veius views with kinder eyes, 



And suffers to attain a happy prize ; 



Laugh not too proudly that I thus repine, 



Y»ur fate to-morrnw may be such as mine. Cinna. 



