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TRANSLATIONS.
Luxuriant grows; such affluence
Does glorious opportunities dispense,
Giving depth of thought to find 115
Pursuits which please a noble mind,

EPODE III.Measures 10.

Refulgent star! to man the purest beam of light!
The possessor of this store.
Far-future things discerning, knows
Obdurate wretches, once deceas'd, to immediate Woes
Consign'd, too late their pains deplore; 121
For below
'E're they go,
Sits one in judgment, who pronounces right
On crimes in this wide realm of Jove; 125
Whose dire decree no power can e'er remove:

STROPHE IV.Measures 16.

But the good, alike by night,
Alike by day, the sun's unclouded light
Beholding, ever bless'd,
Live an unlaborious life, 130
Nor anxious interrupt their hallow'd rest

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