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“TRANSLATION OF HORACE, Flow her dread name to every tide-wath’é 
Book vit. Ode 3.*. : .  fhore, i ie. visting 
HUS Juno, to affembled Gods revealing — pres or that Afric decks with towers, 
The dooms of men: ¢ Troy, Troy, thy ees feathatdrinks. 
tottering towers3;. e {welling floods of Nile. 
A lewd and fatal judge, _. Scorn fhe for gain to dig the rock-womb™@ 
A feeanger harlot-queen, gold; © t Fhesiey ‘Hi 
Shake tethe duft. Aveng'dis now the fraud (Well, were it ever hid!) leaft tutor’d fo, 
Wrought by Laomedon on toiling Gods. She grafps with impious hand, —_ 
To Pallas, and to me -The fpoil of human kind. 
The nod of fate refigns Clafp her wide arms the boundaries of earth 5 
The town, the people, and their wily chief. From where the fwarthy fous of torrid light 
No more the adulterefs boafts her gilded ~ Mia oe Co PRR an bas f 
~ ; r ing fnow. 
@ ae Priam’s faithlefs houfe Be to the warlike: Romans; this, T {wear : 
Refrains the ftrife-wont Greeks is teas a agra At ofp span € h: : 
By Hettor’s aid. The War our broil arous’d, © ' rss ¢ hs ithe See sie “il ce ; 
Cowers bier their downfall glutted. Now my Again fhall clap its wings a hir i a pee 
wrat ; : as bata 
ee ee O’er the new Troy; again fhall Ate ftroll, — 
Appeafes, nor purfue HD Clanking the {word and chainy / 
With lingering hate the fon “. 
Tee $e : Led by the wife of Jove. . 
Whom unto Mars the Trojan prieftefs bore. rey itcg by: Piichus) solleeaphe ts eeu 
Let him afcend the Hght-inwoven feats, : “A 
Drain the bright nectar’d cup, OF re seis thall i A Greeks o'er 
: And gsace the ranks of gods: ? : ee 
So but wide feas between yon ruins roll, Sree ee pat 
1 3 ile baitifh’ it ? : 
And his proud Rome. While baitifh’d, thrive Cente: Mut: fact (alecae taeadeall die eg 
her fons: . ‘ vig 
So but on Paris’ tomb Aine F Shay 
| The flocks infulting frifk, Bure a? eee ee ne 
And whelps the lionefs in Priam’s ball. T love thy brow oF {miles 
Climb her proud capito) in lating ftrength, 
And to the diftant Mede 

amy ala Sirumnpbal teach Rey ais SonNET To THE NIGHTINGALE. 
* The fecond volume of the Monthly By }. Cobbin, jun. : 
Magazine, page 614, has preferved a propo- 
fal for feparating, ‘in a new place, the fecond 
and third Odes of Horace’s third book. To 
put the Enelifh reader in poffeffion of the 
whole evidence, in behalf of the alteration 
faggefted, a tranflation of both poems feems 
requifite. The remaining one, therefore, is Sweet bird of.eve! I love the liquid note 
OFT let me wander at the moonlight hour, 
To fome fequefter’d grove, or filent 
bow’r 5 fh Fags 
When ceafe the carrols of the plumy throng, 
And Philomel begins.the plaintive fong. 
now offered forinfertion. # That flows mellifluous from thy quivering 
The progrefs of this Ode furnifhes two ad- throats 
ditional arguménts for fuppofing the four O Zephyr, ficeting Zephyr, longer flay, 
_Uitigated.quatrains to have originally formed Nor bear that lovely harmony away. 
gp eeit thereof. 1. Romulus ee gees Enchanting chorifter! to me impart 
theofis are alluded to in an oracular manner: Thy gown ene eal put aft boise 
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‘ Envifum nepotem Troa quem ‘peperit facerdcs For-could I tune the foul feducing air, , 
Marti. The melting ftrains mui furely win the 
The effect of which would be enfeebled by fair, 
any previous mention. 2. They are defcribed Then will I ftrive to learn thy piteous tale, 
in a vein of poetry, which being put inte the And {well, with thee, fweet. bird, the 
mouth of a goddefs, ought to have furpafled evening gale. 
any other defcription of the fame event in aie 
the fame poem: whereas the ‘¢ Arces attigit 
igneas,” and the ‘* Purpureo bidit ore Neéar,” SYMPATHY. — 
“gre much more poeti¢al than the ¢¢ Lucidas OFT magic tenant of the foul! 
inire fedes,”” and the ‘* Ducere Ne&aris fuccos,” That bids congenial minds unite 5 
af this fecond Ode; to fay nothing of the That {ways us with a mild controul, 
poverty and inutility ef fuch artlefs repeti- Inftructing us in true delight; 
Sion, ’ From 
