Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Licenza | | Fons Bandusia | | Horace (65–8 B.C.) |
| | (From The Odes)
Translated by R. M. Hovenden
BANDUSIAN fountain, crystal-bright, | |
| With duly offered flowers and wine | |
| To-morrow shall a kid be thine, | |
| Whose front, with sprouting horns bedight, | |
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| Foretokens love and battle-shock: | 5 |
| Vain token; for thy chilling flood | |
| Must take the crimson of his blood, | |
| Young promise of the wanton flock. | |
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| In sultry dog-day’s hottest noon, | |
| Unsunned, a cool repose art thou | 10 |
| To oxen from the toilsome plough, | |
| To wandering sheep a welcome boon. | |
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| Henceforth run on, patrician spring, | |
| Made noble by my verse, that gave | |
| To fame that ilex-sheltered cave | 15 |
| Whereon thy babbling waters ring. | | | | |
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