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XXIII.

EST frondibus vox: est fluviis suus

sermo, nec ullis non resonat locis:

ignes ubi et tellus et aer

et pelagus nequeunt silere.

Quicquid videmus nam penitus subit urgetque Numen, quaque sinat mori,

qua lege sub dio morari,

qua spatium moderetur ævi,

nobis sub imo pectore disserit

arcana: Phœbi proditur aureo

fulgore et in cæli tonantis

nubibus, et reboantis inter

silvæ labores cum fremitu gravis

auditur Euri :

I feel him in the silent dews

by grateful earth betrayed;

I feel him in the gentle showers,

the soft south-wind, the breath of flowers,

the sunshine and the shade.

I see him, hear him, everywhere,
in all things-darkness, light,
silence, and sound; but most of all

when slumber's duský curtains fall,

I' the silent hour of night.

C. BOWLES.

nec tacito secus

cum rore per gratas vel almo

terra vices recreatur imbre :

qua lenis horti fert Notus halitum, seu Phoebus abdit seu retegit jubar, ubique præsentem moveri

stare Deum fateor, per umbræ

per lucis horas, perque silentium crebrasque voces:-at propius subit

cum somnus obduxit tenebras, paxque regit taciturna noctem.

XXIV.

THEN let the chill Scirocco blow,

and gird us round with hills of snow;

or else go whistle to the shore,

and make the hollow mountains roar,

whilst we together jovial sit

careless, and crowned with mirth and wit, where, though bleak winds confine us home, our fancies round the world shall roam. We'll think of all the friends we know, and drink to all worth drinking to; when, having drunk all thine and mine, we rather shall want healths than wine.

XXIV.

HIBERNAS foribus licet

obsessis Boreas accumulet nives,

aut in litore sibilet

baccheturque fremens per cava montium :

dum presso ad lepidas dapes

securi cubito nos fruimur jocis ;

et quamquam cohibet trucis

ipsos vis hiemis, libera mens procul

quo ferri libet avolat.

quot dignos cyathis novimus hospites.

propinabimus invicem,

donec defuerint quot mihi quot tibi

cari nominis audiant,

at non defuerint vina bibentibus.

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