EFFICE, ut interea fera munera militia'i 

 Per maria ac terras omneis sopita quiescant. 

 Nam tu sola potes tranquilla pace juvare 

 Mortales ; quoniam belli fera munera Mavors 

 Armipotens regit, in gremium qui ssepe tuum se 

 Rejicit, aeterno devictus vulnere amoris ; 

 Atque ita suspiciens tereti cervice reposta, 

 Pascit amore avidos inhians in te, Dea, visus, 

 Eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore. 

 Hunc tu, Diva, tuo recubantem corpore sancto 

 Circumfusa super, suaves ex ore loquelas 

 Funde, petens placidam Romanis, incluta, pacem. 



LUCRET. i. 31. 



O charming Goddess, whose mysterious sway, 

 The unseen hosts of earth and sky obey ; 

 To whom, though cold and hard to all besides, 

 The Iron God by strong affection glides, 

 Flings himself eager to thy close embrace, 

 And bends his head to gaze upon thy face; 

 Do thou, what time thy fondling arms are thrown 

 Around his form, and he is all thy own, 

 Do thou, thy Rome to save, thy power to prove, 

 Beg him to grant a boon for thy dear love ; 

 Beg him no more in battle-fields to deal, 

 Or crush the nations with his mailed heel, 

 But, touched and softened by a worthy flame, 

 Quit sword and spear, and seek a better fame. 

 Bid him to make all war and slaughter cease, 

 And ply his genuine task in arts of peace ; 

 And by thee guided o'er the trackless surge, 

 Bear wealth and joy to ocean's farthest verge. 



