[TRANSLATIONS.] THE FIFTH ODE OF HORACE, LIB. I., Quis multâ gracilis te puer in rosâ. Rendered almost word for word, without rhyme, according to the Latin measure, as near as the language will permit. WHAT slender youth, bedewed with liquid odours, Pyrrha? For whom bind'st thou In wreaths thy golden hair, Plain in thy neatness? Oh, how oft shall he Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold; Hopes thee, of flattering gales To whom thou untried seem'st fair! Me, in my vowed My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of Sea. [As Milton inserts the original with his translation, as if to challenge comparison, it is right that we should do so too.] AD PYRRHAM. ODE V. Horatius ex Pyrrhæ illecebris tanquam e naufragio enataverat, cujus amore irretitos affirmat esse miseros. QUIS multâ gracilis te puer in rosâ Grato, Pyrrha, sub antro? Cui flavam religas comam Simplex munditie ? Heu, quoties fidem Qui nunc te fruitur credulus aurea; Faliacis! Miseri quibus Intentata nites. Me tabulâ sacer Suspendisse potenti Vestimenta maris Deo. April, 1648.-J. M. Nine of the Psalms done into Metre; wherein all, but what is in a different character, are the very words of the Text, translated from the original. PSALM LXXX. I THOU Shepherd that dost Israel keep, Give ear in time of need, Who leadest like a flock of sheep Thy loved Joseph's seed, That sitt'st between the Cherubs bright, Shine forth, and from thy cloud give light, 2 In Ephraim's view and Benjamin's, Awake1 thy strength, come, and be seen 3 Turn us again; thy grace divine Cause thou thy face on us to shine, 4 Lord God of Hosts, how long wilt thou, Thy 2 smoking wrath, and angry brow, 5 Thou feed'st them with the bread of tears; And mak'st them largely drink the tears Wherewith their cheeks are wet. 6 A strife thou mak'st us and a prey To every neighbour foe; 4 4 Among themselves they laugh, they play, 7 Return us, and thy grace divine, 8 A Vine from Egypt thou hast brought, And drov'st out nations proud and haut, 9 Thou didst prepare for it a place, And filled the land at last. 10 With her green shade that covered all Her boughs as high as cedars tall 11 Her branches on the western side Her other branches went. 12 Why hast thou laid her hedges low, That all may pluck her, as they go, 13 The tusked boar out of the wood Upturns it by the roots; Wild beasts there browse, and make their food Her grapes and tender shoots. 14 Return now, God of Hosts; look down From Heaven, thy seat divine; 4 Filgnagu 30 40 50 Behold us, but without a frown, 60 15 Visit this Vine, which thy right hand Hath set, and planted long, And the young branch, that for thyself 16 But now it is consumed with fire, They perish at thy dreadful ire, 17 Upon the Man of thy right hand 70 Upon the Son of Man, whom Thou 18 So shall we not go back from thee 19 Return us, and thy grace divine, PSALM LXXXI. 1 To God our strength sing loud and clear; To Jacob's God, that all may hear, 2 Prepare a hymn, prepare a song; The cheerful psaltery bring along, 3 Blow, as is wont, in the new moon, The appointed time, the day whereon 4 This was a statute given of old A law of Jacob's God to hold, From whence they might not swerve. 5 This he a testimony ordained In Joseph, not to change, When as he passed through Egypt-land; 6 From burden, and from slavish toil, His hands from pots, and miry soil, 7 When trouble did thee sore assail, And led thee out of thrall. I answered thee in thunder deep, 8 Hear, O my people, hearken well: Thou ancient stock of Israel, 9 Throughout the land of thy abode Nor shalt thou to a foreign god In honour bend thy knee. 10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought Ask large enough, and I, besought, 11 And yet my people would not hear, And Israel, whom I loved so dear, 12 Then did I leave them to their will, Their own conceits they followed still 13 Oh that my people would be wise, And oh that Israel would advise 14 Then would I soon bring down their foes, And turn my hand against all those 15 Who hate the Lord should then be fain But they, his people, should remain; Their time should have no end. 16 And he would feed them from the shock And satisfy them from the rock 40 50 to |