Quieta non mouere.

EN ubi dormit Amor! noli turbare puellum; gnauiter i studiis, ut sinit hora, uaca.

sic operi insumit tempus breue sedula mater, dum sopor infantem mox abigendus habet.

Citharae sciens.

LYDIA, pone chelyn: nil ars ualet ista canendi,
ni mens sollicitum mota resoluat onus:
mens, animata chelys, Zephyrique et Solis alumna,
non nisi diuino pollice tacta canit:

quippe ubi flens caelo Pietas delabitur, et Spes,
et Pauor, et comitem se magus addit Amor,
hi uice quisque sua penitus praecordia temptant,
nec, nisi cum fugiunt, mens resoluta canit.

Quousque ?

QVOT tua sit facies, quot mens placitura per annos, quamque meus constans, Anna, futurus amor,

quaerere tu noli: quid enim, carissima? nulli

cognita mortali est funeris hora sui.

Dirge.

IF thou wilt ease thine heart
of love and all its smart,
then sleep, dear, sleep,

and not a sorrow

hang any tear on thine eyelashes:
lie still and deep,

sad soul, until the sea-wave washes
the rim o' the sun to-morrow
in eastern sky.

but wilt thou cure thine heart

of love and all its smart,

then die, dear, die;

'tis deeper, sweeter

than on a rose-bank to lie dreaming

with folded eye;

and then alone, amid the beaming

of love's stars, thou'lt meet her
in eastern sky.

BEDDOES.

A Free School.

THE king declared by seal and hand,

a FREE SCHOOL in your town shall stand enfranchised and endowed by me.'

'what is a Free School?' Davus cries: a burgess answers, looking wise,

'a School to none but townsmen Free.'

Fear.

THAT fear created gods you think is clear: but say, Lucretius, who created fear?

̓Αχέων "Ακος.

Εἰ μὲν θέλοις ἔρωτα
μεθεὶς ἄχη τ' ἔρωτος
λύσιν βραχεῖαν εὑρεῖν
τῇ καρδίῃ πονούσῃ,
εὔδοις ἄν, ὦ φίλ', ενδοις,
μηδ ̓ ὀφρύσιν τερείναις
βάλοι τι δάκρυ λύπη
ἔνδον δὲ κεῖσ ̓ ἕκηλος,
ἀμαυρὲ θυμέ, κεῖσο
ἕως ἂν οἶδμα λούσῃ
Φοίβου χνόας έφην
ἐς αὔριον κατ ̓ αἴθρην.
ἀλλ ̓ εἰ θέλοις ἔρωτα
φυγὼν ἔχη τ ̓ ἔρωτος
σὴν καρδίην ἀκεῖσθαι,
θάνοις ἄν, ὦ φίλ', εὐθύς
βάθιόν ἐστι τοῦτο,
ἥδιον, ἢ 'ν ῥοδῶνι
κλιθέντ ̓ ὄνειρ ̓ ἰδέσθαι
σὸν ὄμμα συμβαλόντα
οὕτω γὰρ ἐντύχοις ἂν
αὐτῇ ποτ', εὖτ ̓ ἔρωτος
ὄρωρεν ἄστρ ̓, ἑῴην

μόνος μόνῃ κατ' αἴθρην.

Libera Schola.

'LIBERA,' rex scripsit, 'uestra Schola surget in urbe:'

ciuis ait uecors, 'haec mihi Serua datur.'

Ad Lucretium.

NVMEN est timore factum, sic docet Lucretius: numquid ille nos docebit unde sit factus timor?

Greisenwörter.

(1)

Sagt nicht mehr; guten Morgen! guten Tag!
sagt immer; guten Abend! gute Nacht!
denn Abend ist es um mich, und die Nacht
ist nahe mir; o wäre sie schon da.

(2)

UHLAND.

COME child, my sweetest life, o come to me: nay, child, my sweetest death, sit on my knee: for all that's bitter Life I name, and all

that is to me the sweetest, Death I call.

From UHLAND.

The two Lots.

TWAIN are the lots in life for Virtue-enjoyment and suff'ring:

happy the man who has learnt all the good uses

of both.

From SCHILLER.

The Legion of Honour

DANS les temps affreux d'autrefois

on mettait sans pitié les voleurs sur la croix:

grâce au changement de nos mœurs,

c'est la croix aujourd'hui qu'on met sur les voleurs.

A.

The universal Master.

WHOE'ER thou art, thy master see:

he was, or is, or is to be.

From the French.

Musa Senilis.

(1)

O SAY to me no more, 'good morn!' 'good day!' 'tis time 'good evening!' now 'good night!' to say. for evening is around me, night is near:

ah me! I would it were already here.

(2)

Hvc ades, his genibus, mea dulcis uita, puelle: quid loquor? his genibus, mors mea dulcis, ades; nam titulo uitae compello quidquid amarum, et titulo mortis quod mihi dulce uoco.

Sors duplex.

VIRTVTI sors est duplex, plorare fruique:
profuit, ignarum neutrius esse uirum.

Crux.

FVR datus ante cruci est: successit mitior aetas ; dant potius furi tempora nostra crucem.

In Statuam Cupidinis.

QVISQVIS es, huc adsis iubeo dominumque salutes, siue fuit, siue est, siue erit ille, tuum.