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NUNC EST BIBENDUM.

She pictured the proud triumph
    Beneath the Roman sky,
And fiercely flamed her passion,
    And sternly flashed her eye;

In her ears the chariots rumbled,
    In her ears the shoutings rang,
Then she bared her snowy bosom
    To the serpent's poisoned fang.