"LET US TURN HITHERWARD OUR BARK."

R. C. TRENCH.

ET us turn hitherward our bark," they cried,

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"And, 'mid the blisses of this happy isle,

Past toil forgetting and to come, abide

In joyfulness awhile.

And then, refreshed, our tasks resume again,
If other tasks we yet are bound unto,
Combing the hoary tresses of the main

With sharp swift keel anew."

O heroes, that had once a nobler aim,

O heroes, sprung from many a godlike line, What will ye do, unmindful of your fame, And of your race divine?

"QUIN HUC, FREMEBANT."

UIN huc," fremebant, "dirigimus ratem :

QUIN

Hic, dote læti divitis insulæ,

Paullisper hæremus, futuri

Nec memores operis, nec acti:

"Curas refecti cras iterabimus,

Si qua supersunt emeritis novæ :

Pexisse pernices acuta

Canitiem pelagi carina."

O rebus olim nobilioribus

Pares origo Dî quibus ac Dex

Heroës! oblitine famæ

Hæc struitis, generisque summi?

But they, by these prevailing voices now

Lured, evermore draw nearer to the land,

Nor saw the wrecks of many a goodly prow,
That strewed that fatal strand;

Or seeing, feared not-warning taking none
From the plain doom of all who went before,
Whose bones lay bleaching in the wind and sun,
And whitened all the shore.

Atqui propinquant jam magis ac magis,

Ducti magistra voce, solum: neque

Videre prorarum nefandas

Fragmina nobilium per oras;

Vidisse seu non pœnitet-ominis

Incuriosos tot præëuntium,

Quorum ossa sol siccantque venti,

Candet adhuc quibus omnis ora.

CARMEN SECULARE.

MDCCCLIII.

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"Quicquid agunt homines, nostri est farrago libelli."

CRIS hyems jam venit: hyems genus omne

perosa

Fœmineum, et senibus glacies non æqua rotundis : Apparent rari stantes in tramite glauco;

Radit iter, cogitque nives, sua tela, juventus.

Trux matrona ruit, multos dominata per annos, Digna indigna minans, glomeratque volumina crurum ; Illa parte senex, amisso forte galero,

Per plateas bacchatur; eum chorus omnis agrestum Ridet anhelantem frustra, et jam jamque tenentem Quod petit; illud agunt venti prensumque resorbent. Post, ubi compositus tandem votique potitus

Sedit humi; flet crura tuens nive candida lenta,