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Bid the lyre and cittern play;
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Enkindle incense, shed the victim's gore;
Heaven has watch'd o'er Numida,
And brings him safe from far
Hispania
's shore.
Now, returning, he bestows
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On each dear comrade all the love he can;
But to
Lamia
most he owes,
By whose sweet side he grew from boy to man.
Note we in our calendar
This festal day with whitest mark from
Crete
:
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Let it flow, the old wine-jar,
And ply to Salian time your restless feet.
Damalis tosses off her wine,
But Bassus sure must prove her match tonight.
Give us roses all to twine,
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And parsley green, and lilies deathly white.
Every melting eye will rest
On Damalis' lovely face; but none may part
Damalis from our new-found guest;
She clings, and clings, like ivy, round his heart.
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Odes. Q. Horatius Flaccus. John Conington (Translator). London. 1882.
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