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NURE the rawbon'd lad to bear
The early toils of finewy war,
And pinching poverty, and dare
On gallant steed, the warlike mede,
Tremendous with his fpear.

2. Encamp him in raw midnight cold,
And roufe with fierce alarms,

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By frequent dangers grow him bold,
And beat him oft to arms.

3. Whom, shall the matron queen behald,
Or princess, from the hoftile wall,
And to the warring monarch call,
And thus her fears unfold.

4. O fpouse th' unequal fight forbear,
To a chafe that lion whelp beware,
Of fierce Hefperian brood,
Wide raging through the ranks of war,
In maffacré and blood.

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Nor can bafe flight the coward fave,
Black death the fugitive perfues,
And fimit, averfe, inglorious, ftrews
In common with the brave.

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Nor spares, in pitylefs decree,
Unpuiffant YOUTH, of warlefs knee.

6. VIRTUE, in her own native light,
Shines forth, in fpotlefs honors bright;
Superior to the fordid crowd,
Repulfe difdaining, nobly proud;
Nor takes, or lays her fafces down,
With populary smile or frown;
7. Virtue unbars the Portals high,
To merit, never doom'd to die,
And leads up to the starry skie,
By paths unknowna untrod,
And shaking off this mortal clod,

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Bafe tenement of clay;
She fpurneth earth, and wings away,
To her paternal God.

8. To breast, in facred filence, true,
Be juft reward and honor due;

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I'll fhun-who Ceres' rites betray,
Forbid, beneath one roof to be,
Or with me, loose frail bark to sea.
9. Neglected Gods, with guilty clan

Oft do involve th' innoxious man ;
The vilain rears his head a while,
But Pain and Vengeance, many a mile,:
Slowaambling after, never leave
Perfuit, of antecedent Knave.

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Involve the good innoxious uncautious man. Neglectus diefpiter, is here to be conftrued, the God of Fate, presiding over the events of the day, whom the good (too uncautiously) neglect, and by keeping wisked company are involved in the fame com. mon deftruction.

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The first part of this Ode feems to be the Eulogy of Cato; the fecond the Apotheófis of Romulus, with the approbation of Juno, who affents to it, and the univerfal dominion of the Romans,on condition that they never rebuild, or transfer the feat of empire, to Troy; which Julius, and Anguftus Cæfar (it is faid) had fome thoughts of doing, and to deter him from his purpofe, feems to have been the defign of this Ode.

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Iuftum & tenacem propofiti virum,|
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus inftantis tyranni

Mente quatit Solida; neque Aufter,
Dux inquieti turbidus Adriæ,
Nec fulminantis magna Jovis manus,
Si fractus illabatur orbis,
Impavidum ferient ruina,

HE ftedfaft man, in honor'd trust,
Of purpose firm, and ftubborn juft,
Defies the ardors, and withstands,
Tumultuous crowds deprav'd commands,
And turbid Auster, chief to raise,
The restless Adria's, rolling feas;

2. Nor tyrant of impending brow,
Nor fulminating blow

Of Jove, in firmamental roll,

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Let frame of nature round him break,
Convuls'd, in ruins hurl'd';

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Unmov'd, in elemental wreck,

He falleth with the falling world.

Thus arm'd, far-vague, by virtue led,
Alcides props the skies

And twins of the Ledéan bed,

In ftarry honors rife;

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Midft whom the Godlike Cæfar lies,

And quaffs with purple lip immortal joys;
And Bacchus, thee thy tygers, broke,
Indocil, lafh'd unto the yoke,

Bore to the gates of light;

In chariot of Paternal God,

6. Fled o'er the Acherontic flood,

Quirinus, a heavenly bright,

To Juno, no ungrateful gueft,

a Romulus,

Who thus, the council'd Gods addrefs'd,

7. O Ilion, Ilion, whom thy own

Incestuous, fatal-judging son,
With foreign harlot, hath undone,
Long doom'd, by me and Pallas chafte
To afhes, and a defart wafte,
8. What time, the falfe Laomedon,

Defrauding Gods, of promis'd fums,
A perjur'd Sire, and perjur'd fons,
Brought heavenly vengeance down;
9. By our diffenfions long upheld,

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The Dardan war, and blood is quell'd,
No more can famous guest alarm,
Nor the adult'refs Spartan, charm,
Nor Priam, nor the perjur'd race,
Can my intrepid Greeks harrafs,

Nor Hector's bloody arm;
10. Our wrath allay'd-to Mars benign,
Th' obnoxious grandson we resign,
(Of Ilia priestess-Trojan line)
Admitted now a lucid guest,
To Nectar, and Ambrofial feast,

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Rankt with the bleft, in placid reign,

Inftall'd henceforth, a God we deign;

11. Rule happy, reign ye exile race,

O'er any land or any feas,

And spread to Scythian realms extremė,
The terrors of the Roman name,

Ye daring, dreadful bands;
Where, the interluent waves, divide
The Afran, from Európés' fide,
Where Nilus, with his swelling tide
« Floods the prolific lands.

12. Provided-length of OCEAN roar,
Forbidding, fundering evermore
Troy, from imperial Rome;

And savage herds, insulting, spurn
The bloody duft of Priams' urn,
And foul the Adulterer's a pride,

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And beasts, their cubs, unvengéd, hide,

In his incestuous tomb ;

Effulgent Capitolium ftand,

To earth, tremendous Dome,

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Send forth thy ftern command.

13. Far nobler Roman, fpurning proud,
The gold, deep bury'd in the ground,
And better thus-unfought, unfound,
Than fpreading baneful o'er the land,
Engrafp'd by man, in impious fraud,
Snatcht with all-facrilegious hand,
His glitt'ring Idol-God.

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Stanza 10, 11, 12, are tranfpofed in this tranflation, but without altering the fenfe

and the connection, I hope, is as well preserved,

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