Hic te sollicito requrit æstro
Urbanos fugiens procul tumultus.
Hie inter scopulos, vagosque fluctus
Spumantis pelagi latere credit.
Hic deserta petit loca, et per antra
Te quærens, varias peragrat oras
Qua lucens oritur, caditque Titan.
Hic, ut te celer adsequatur, aurum
Congestum colit, atque dignitatum
Regalem sibi præparat decorem.
Hic demens juga scandit, et remotos
Perscrutatur agros; tamen supernæ
Hi pacis nequeant bonis potiri.
Cur sic ergo tuum, benigna, numen
Celans, implacidum relinquis orbem?
Pacem sic ego sciscitabar. Illa
Respondet.— Proprio imperare cordi
Si nosti, tibi cognitumque numen
Possessumque meum est; sinu receptam
Sic me perpetuo coles amore."
See Sermons on subjects chiefly practical, by J. Jebb, D. D. F. R. S. Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert, and Aghadoe, third ed. London, 1824, p. 94.
Ded. Ep. The orig. MS. after line 14, p. xix. ran thus:
Soft thoughts by day, and many a pensive dream
Beguiling night are mine; by wood, and stream
Lone wanderings, and when shadowy eve recalls
My vagrant footsteps to the household walls,
Trimm'd is the lamp anew,—and one day more
Of study, and of solitude is o'er.
ERRATUM.
Dedicatory Epistle, p. xiv, line 3, for "they" read "there."
