Errones.

STELLA, lucenti per inane penna
flammeos uelox agitare cursus,
ede, quo noctis tua nunc in antro
pluma quiescet?

Luna, pallenti ueneranda uoltu
deuios caeli peragens meatus,
qua tenebrarum recrearis aut qua
lucis in aula?

Vente, terrarum uelut exul aegrum
semper errorem renouans, adhucne
seruat arcanum tibi silua nidum
uel maris unda?

Ad Wolfianos.

PERGITE Maeonidae pulchram lacerare coronam diuinique patres enumerare libri : unius est matris certe; immortalia uoltus, o Natura, tui fert documenta liber.

Venus orta.

INTVITV secura feris mihi pectus, et omne
fluctuat aestiua luce, quod umbra fuit.
ille meas peperit flammas obtutus, ocellis
caeruleis istis exiit orta Venus.

Milton.

MILTON! thou shouldst be living at this hour;
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
of stagnant waters; altar, sword, and pen,
fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
have forfeited their ancient English dower

of inward happiness. we are selfish men:
oh raise us up, return to us again,
and give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart;

thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea;

pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free. so didst thou travel on life's common way in cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart the lowliest duties on herself did lay.

WORDSWORTH.

Negus refused at 'The Raven' in Olden Time.

MINE host of the Raven's been doctored to plague

us;

I asked him for Negus:-he grinned and said, Nay, goose.

Heu Pietas, heu prisca Fides.

MILTVNE, uellem nunc quoque uiueres :
te nostra, te nunc postulat Anglia:
quae, more coenosae paludis,
stagnat iners. sine castitate

nil ara et ensis pluma focus ualent.
quo fugit aulae gloria? quo casae
pax alma? cur priscae quietis
dote carent patrii penates?

gens praua nobis consulimus. redi et
dilapsa prudens saecla redintegra:
da clara libertas, pudici

da redeant sine labe mores,

et uera uirtus firmaque uiribus
iustis potestas. mens tua lumine
fulgebat, ut sidus, remoto;

uox tua, ceu pelagi, sonabat:

stabas aperto purior aethere,
peiusque leto seruitium timens,
sincera maiestas: deique

muneribus modicis fruentem

tutum per omnis te pietas tua
traduxit annos. nec tamen immemor
quid cuique deberes, amabas

officiis minimis uacare.

Negat Improbus.

CALLIDVS ille nihil calidi dat caupo Rauennae ; cum peterem 'Negus,' reddidit ille, Nego.

F. M.

The Spirit of Love.

A SPIRIT there is, whose fragrant sigh
is burning now through earth and air:
where cheeks are blushing, the Spirit is nigh;
where lips are meeting, the Spirit is there.
his breath is the soul of flowers like these;
and his floating eyes,-oh, they resemble
blue water-lilies, when the breeze

is making the stream around them tremble. hail to thee, hail to thee, kindling power, Spirit of love! Spirit of bliss!

thy holiest time is the moonlight hour,

and there never was moonlight so sweet as this. by the fair and brave, who blushing unite, like the sun and wave when they meet at night; by the tear that shews when passion is nigh, as the rain-drop flows from the heat of the sky; by the first love-beat of the youthful heart, by the bliss to meet, and the pain to part,

by all that thou hast to mortals given,

which-oh, could it last, this earth were heaven, we call thee hither, entrancing power,

Spirit of love! Spirit of bliss!

the holiest time is the moonlight hour,

and there never was moonlight so sweet as this.

MOORE.

The Poet-King.

A FLACCUS in thy Caesar proudly own;
thy poet-king, fair city, richly crown:
in ivy-wreaths entwine thy treasured gold,
and into bays thy choicest emeralds mould.

Spiritus Amoris potens.

SPIRITVS uiuax odoro profluit suspirio

perque terras perque caeli currit ardescens plagas. qua genae rubent amantum, Spiritus propinquus est; labra qua labris premuntur, Spiritus praesens adest. halat ille flosculorum uiuidam fragrantiam : liliis fluitant ocelli comparandi caerulis,

cum Notus circumfluentis crispat undae marmora. diue salue bisque salue concitator pectoris, Spiritus potens amoris, Spiritus gaudi potens. Cynthiae fulgentis hora si tibi sacerrima est, suauiore luce numquam fulsit ipsa Cynthia. per uenustas perque fortes quos rubore feruidos, ceu Thetim Solemque uesper, coniugat pudens amor; perque lacrimas ingruentis indices cupidinis, qualis ex feruente caelo gutta pluuia desilit; perque qui primos calores cordis indicat tremor, quaeque iunctis est uoluptas, quique diuulsis dolor, omne per quidquid tulisti dulce tu mortalibus, quod perenne si maneret, terra caelestis foret, huc adesse te precamur, uis amica pectori, Spiritus potens amoris, Spiritus gaudi potens. Cynthiae fulgentis hora si tibi sacerrima est, suauiore luce numquam fulsit ipsa Cynthia.

Inscriptum in Albo Gazophylacii Monacensis

A. S. MDCCCXLV.

AVGVSTVм Flaccumque uiro miraris in uno,
rege tuo felix, urbs pia, uate tuo:

finge hederas auro, laurus imitare smaragdis,
ut decoret tantum digna corona caput.