2/2 REIN DEER. 



mos tuos annos ultra centenarium numerum cum 

 facili senectute et summa sanitate. Te latent 

 myriades morborum nobis Europxis communes. 

 Tu vivis in sylvis, avis instar, nee sementem facis, 

 nee metis, tamen alit te Deus optimus optime. 

 Tua ornamenta sunt tremula arborum folia, gra- 

 minosique luci ; tuus potus aqua crystalline pel- 

 luciditatis, quae nee cerebrum insania adficit, nee 

 strumas in Alpibus tuis producit. Cibus tuus est 

 vel verno tempore piscis recens, vel zestivo serum 

 lactis, vel autumnali tetrao, vel hyemali caro re- 

 cens rangiferina absque sale et pane, singula vice 

 unico constans ferculo, edis dum securus e lecto 

 surgis, dumque eum petis, nee nosti venena nos- 

 tra, qua latent sub dulci melle. Te non obruit 

 scorbutus, nee febris intermittens, nee obesitas, 

 nee podagra, fibroso gaudes corpore et alacri, ani- 

 moque libero. O sancta innocentia, estne hie tuus 

 thronus inter Faunos in summo septentrione, inque 

 vilissima babita terra? numne sic prsefers stragula 

 hsec betulina mollibus serico tectis plumis ? Sic 

 etiam credidere veteres, nee male." 



Of this eulogy the English reader must be con- 

 tent with the following somewhat abbreviated 

 translation, or rather imitation. 



O favour'd race ! whom partial Heav'n design 'd 

 To free from all the cares that vex mankind! 

 In life's mad scenes while wayward nations join, 

 One silent corner of the world is thine j 

 From busy toil, from raging passions free, 

 And war, dire stain of laps'd humanity ! 

 Far from thy plains the hideous monster roves, 

 Nor dares pollute thy consecrated groves. 



