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For, springing thick in every field,
The earth does golden flowers spontaneous yield; 155
And, in every limpid stream,
The budding gold is seen to gleam:

EPODE IV.Measures 10.

Fair heritage! by righteous Rhadamanth's award;
Who, coequal, takes his seat
With Saturn sire divine, 160
Thy consort, Rhea, who above the rest dost shine,
High-thron'd, thou matron-goddess great:
These among
(Blissful throng!)
Does Peleus and does Cadmus find regard; 165
And, through his mother's winning prayer
To Jove, Achilles dwells immortal there:

STROPHE V.Measures 16.

He who Hector did destroy,
The pillar firm, the whole support, of Troy,
And Cycnus gave to dy, 170
And Aurora's Æthiop son.
My arm beneath yet many darts have I,

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