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Where'er he dwells, he dwells alone,
Except himself has chattels none,
Well satisfied to be his own

Whole treasure,

Thus, hermit-like, his life he leads,
Nor partner of his banquet needs,
And if he meets one, only feeds

The faster.

Who seeks him must be worse than blind (He and his house are so combined),

If, finding it, he fails to find

Its master.

Translations of Greek Verses.

FROM THE GREEK OF JULIANUS.

SPARTAN, his companions slain,

Alone from battle fled,

His mother, kindling with disdain

That she had borne him, struck him dead;

For courage, and not birth alone,

In Sparta testifies a son !

ON THE REED.

WAS of late a barren plant,
Useless, insignificant,

Nor fig, nor grape, nor apple bore,
A native of the marshy shore;

But gather'd for poetic use,
And plung'd into a sable juice,
Of which my modicum I sip,

With narrow mouth and slender lip,
At once, although by nature dumb,
All eloquent I have become,
And speak with fluency untired,
As if by Phoebus' self inspired.

MY

AN EPITAPH.

Y name-my country-what are they to thee? What, whether base or proud, my pedigree? Perhaps I far surpass'd all other men

Perhaps I fell below them all-what then?
Suffice it, Stranger! that thou seest a tomb-
Thou know'st its use-it hides no matter whom.

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ANOTHER.

AKE to thy bosom, gentle earth, a swain With much hard labour in thy service worn! He set the vines that clothe yon ample plain, And he these olives that the vale adorn.

He fill'd with grain the glebe; the rills he led
Through this green herbage, and those fruitful bow'rs;
Thou, therefore, earth! lie lightly on his head,
His hoary head, and deck his grave with flow'rs.

AT

ANOTHER.

T threescore winters' end I died, A cheerless being, sole and sad; The nuptial knot I never tied,

And wish my father never had.

TO HEALTH.

Blest Hygeia! be it mine
To enjoy what thou canst give,
And henceforth with thee to live:
For in pow'r if pleasure be,
Wealth, or num'rous progeny.
Or in amorous embrace,

Where no spy infests the place:
Or in aught that Heav'n bestows,
To alleviate human woes,
When the wearied heart despairs
Of a respite from its cares;
These and ev'ry true delight
Flourish only in thy sight;
And the sister Graces Three
Owe, themselves, their youth to thee,
Without whom we may possess
Much, but never happiness.

ON FLATTERERS.

O mischief worthier of our fear
In Nature can be found,

Than friendship, in ostent sincere,
But hollow and unsound.
For lull'd into a dangerous dream

We close enfold a foe,

Who strikes, when most secure we seem,
Th' inevitable blow.

ON LATE ACQUIRED WEALTH.

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DOOR in my youth, and in life's later scenes
Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour:

Who nought enjoy'd while young, denied the means ;
And nought, when old, enjoy'd, denied the pow'r.

ON A GOOD MAN.

TRAVELER, no none in my decease,

RAV'LLER, regret not me; for thou shalt find

Who, dying, children's children left behind,
And with one wife liv'd many a year in peace:
Three virtuous youths espous'd my daughters three,
And oft their infants in my bosom lay,

Nor saw I one, of all deriv'd from me,

Touch'd with disease, or torn by death away.
Their duteous hands my fun'ral rites bestow'd,
And me, by blameless manners fitted well
To seek it, sent to the serene abode,

Where shades of pious men for ever dwell.

ON A TRUE FRIEND.

AST thou a friend? Thou hast indeed

H A rich and large supply,

Treasure to serve your every need,
Well manag'd, till you die.

MY

ON PEDIGREE.

FROM EPICHARMUS.

mother! if thou love me, name no more
My noble birth! Sounding at every breath
My noble birth, thou kill'st me. Thither fly,
As to their only refuge, all from whom

Nature withholds all good besides; they boast
Their noble birth, conduct us to the tombs
Of their forefathers, and from age to age
Ascending, trumpet their illustrious race:
But whom hast thou beheld, or canst thou name,
Derived from no forefather? Such a man
Lives not; for how could such be born at all!
And if it chance, that native of a land
Far distant, or in infancy deprived
Of all his kindred, one, who cannot trace
His origin, exist, why deem him sprung
From baser ancestry than theirs, who can?
My mother! he, whom Nature at his birth
Endow'd with virtuous qualities, although
An Ethiop and a slave, is nobly born.

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