Rich men with change are for the most part pleased; Have a care-wrinkled forehead oft uncreased. And Procyon rages, and his hidden light And brawling Tanais for the state prepare. Futurity's event in hazy night, And smiles when man, beyond the bounds of right, Gropes fearfully. What is at hand, resolve To use without abusing. All beside Is onward borne; e'en as to Tuscan sea, Now holds its course, and now, with swollen tide, Plerumque gratae divitibus vices, Mundaeque parvo sub lare pauperum Sollicitam explicuere frontem. Jam clarus occultum Andromedae pater Sole dies referente siccos. Jam pastor umbras cum grege languido Ripa vagis taciturna ventis. Fas trepidat. Quod adest, memento In mare, nunc lapides adesos, Stirpesque raptas, et pecus, et domus Volventis una, non sine montium Clamore, vicinaeque silvae ; Cum fera diluvies quietos Irritat amnes. Ille potens sui Can I have lived' exclaim. Be as it may The morrow, whether Jove the firmament Shall with black cloud or with bright sun have decked, What lies behind he cannot render vain, Nor what the fleeting hours once bring, again Can he undo or make of none effect. Fortune, exulting in her fell design, And bent on playing her insulting play, Bears her unstable dignities away, Now unto me, to others now, benign. While she remains, I praise. Then if she wave She gave, and with my manhood gird myself, CARMEN SECULARE. Chorus puerorum et puellarum. PHOEBE, silvarumque potens Diana, Lucidum caeli decus, o colendi Semper, et culti, date quae precamur Quo Sibyllini monuere versus, Chorus of Boys. Nurturing Sun, who in thy car resplendent Chorus of Girls. Bland Ilithyia! thou whose 'tis to open Or Genitalis. Progeny hasten, goddess, and the Senate's Joint Chorus. Cycle established of eleven decades, Hymns to us may it bring back, and diversions, Thrice by clear day, as oft beneath night's grateful Shadow, frequented. Fates, do ye too, veracious in predicting What has been once ordained, and which the stable Order of things maintains, to past well-being Add a like future. Let the earth, with both fruit and cattle teeming, Let benign rain and Jupiter's pure breezes |