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REIN DEER. 



mos tuos annos ultra centenarium numerum cum 

 facili senectute et summa sanitate. Te latent 

 myriacles morborum nobis Europseis communes. 

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

 nec metis, tamen alit te Deus optimus optime. 

 Tua ornamenta sunt tremula arborum folia, gra- 

 minosique luci ; tuus potus aqua crystallinae pel- 

 luciditatis, quae nec cerebrum insania adficit, nec 

 strumas in Alpibus tuis producit. Cibus tuus est 

 vel verno tempore piscis recens, vel aestivo serurh 

 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, nec nosti venena nos- 

 tra, qu^ latent sub dulci melle. Te non obruit 

 scorbutus, nec febris intermittens, nec obesitas, 

 nec podagra, fibroso gaudes corpore et alacri, ani- 

 moque libero. O sancta innocentia, estne hie tuus 

 thronus inter Faunos in summo septentrione, inque 

 vilissima habita terra ? numne sic preefers stragula 

 hxc betulina mollibus serico tectis plumis? Sic 

 etiam credidere veteres, nec 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 Heaven 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 

 From busy toil, from raging passions free. 

 And war, dire stain of laps'd humanity ! 

 Far from ihy plains the hideous monster roves. 

 Nor dares pollute thy consecrated groves. 



