IDEM LATINE REDDITUM. HEU inimicitias quoties parit æmula forma, Quam raro pulchræ pulchra placere potest! Sed fines ultra solitos discordia tendit, Cum flores ipsos bilis et ira movent. Hortus ubi dulces præbet tacitosque recessus, Ira Rosam et meritis quæsita superbia tangunt, Multaque ferventi vix cohibenda sinu, 10 Dum sibi fautorum ciet undique nomina vatum, Jusque suum, multo carmine fulta, probat. Altior emicat illa, et celso vertice nutat, Ceu flores inter non habitura parem, Fastiditque alios, et nata videtur in usus Imperii, sceptrum, Flora quod ipsa gerat. Nec Dea non sensit civilis murmura rixæ, Dum licet et locus est, ut tueatur, adest. Et tibi forma datur procerior omnibus, inquit, 20 His ubi sedatus furor est, pètit utraque nympham, Qualem inter Veneres Anglia sola parit; Hanc penes imperium est,nihil optant amplius,hujus Regnant in nitidis, et sine lite, genis. 28 THE POPLAR FIELD. THE poplars are felled, farewell to the shade, And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade; The winds play no longer and sing in the leaves, Nor Ouse in his bosom their image receives. Twelve years have elaps'd since I last took a view The blackbird has fled to another retreat, My fugitive years are all hasting away, With a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in it's stead. 'Tis a sight to engage me, if any thing can, 20 IDEM LATINE REDDITUM. POPULEÆ cecidit gratissima copia silvæ, f Mr. Cowper afterward altered this last stanza in the following man ner: The change both my heart and my fancy employs, Hei mihi! bis senos dum luctu torqueor annos, His cogor silvis suetoque carere recessu, Ah ubi nunc merulæ cantus? Felicior illum Sed qui succisas doleo succidar et ipse, Tam subitò periisse videns tam digna manere, 10 Sit licèt ipse brevis, volucrique simillimus umbræ, Est homini brevior citiùsque obitura voluptas. 20 |