II. Boadicea. CUM modo Romanis regina Britannica flagris Præscius en patulæ quercus sub tegmine sedit "O domina, imbelles si tanta injuria guttas "Roma cadet: (tu scribe meas age sanguine voces, Sanguine, quo nostros commaculavit agros,) Spe sine detestata cadet: cito prægravis illam Par sceleri tanto, crede, ruina premet. "Rome, for empire far renowned, Tramples on a thousand states; Soon her pride shall kiss the ground — "Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize, Harmony the path to fame. "Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, 66 Armed with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, Such the bard's prophetic words, Of his sweet but awful lyre. "Roma potens opibus, terræ caput, inclyta bellis, Sub pede nunc populos mille superba terit: At cadet ingenti mox strata in pulvere lapsu, Moenia jam victor barbarus ecce! petit. "Succrescet Romæ soboles indigna parentum, Non erit in pretio miles, ut ante, suo; Præmia tum famæ numeri, non arma, merebunt, Solaque degenerum gloria carmen erit. "Sed genus acre virum, sylvis innata propago, Protinus in nostris exorietur agris; Fulminibusque potens, alasque induta nitentes, Imperio terras nobiliore reget. "Tum nova, Cæsareis ignota cohortibus, arva Talia grandævus vates: dum præscia fati Pectora divino fervidus igne tumet, Pronus et in chordas plusquam mortale sonantes Excitat arguto pollice dulce melos. She, with all a monarch's pride, Heaven awards the vengeance due; Empire is on us bestowed, Shame and ruin wait on you." Cowper. III. The Course of Time. E'EN such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the fable of our days; And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord will raise me up I trust. Sir Walter Raleigh. 66 Percita magnanimo fastu regina calescit, Sentit et ardentem verba movere sinum; Arma capit, pugnat, moritur: morituraque in hostem Projicit indomitas, vate docente, minas. Ergo, vana tumens, misereri nescia, Roma, Vos manet opprobrium, vos mala mille pati.” II II. III. Resurgam. CURRUNT tempora, mutuasque nobis Sumunt delicias, jocos, juventam, Dein rugas modo pulveremque pendunt, Queis meta variæ viæ reperta Surdo clauditur et tenebricoso. G. S. |