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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Parnassus. Where Greece raises its mountains, one peak stands higher than all. Grass and olives clothe the slopes,1 the rocks above are bare. [2] Here the Castalian spring sends forth its streams, 5 here flows a vein of sacred water. They say that the Muses dwell here: [2] religion hallows the spot.1 Mortal eyes cannot see them, while here the holy band dances. [2] 10 In the midst stands Apollo, crowned with a garland, his hand holds the lyre. [5] He strikes the strings: through rocks and woods the sound flows, as Phoebus plays. [15 and 2] At these strains all Nature is silent; 15 birds sing no songs, and beasts are still. Meanwhile the Muses stand around and listen to the music which their lord makes. Afar off the shepherd hears the divine sounds and offers prayers to the prophetic god. [6] 20 Let us too cultivate songs and melody; let it be our care to celebrate the Aonian band. Whoever loves the Muses lives a happy life [3] and fears not fate nor change. 1. convert. 1. muuus. 2. reddo. Nemo sua sorte contentus vivit. How rarely the gods give a contented mind: that which you have not, you always wish to have. If the sky is cloudless and the sun hot, forthwith the farmer wants rain. [18] When showers descend from the clouds. 5 he complains that the sunlight has perished. The soldier tired with campaigning, tired with contest, praises the wealth which the trader has, [5] whose ships come back from Eastern seas, who can scarcely count his riches. 10 The merchant says, The soldier's lot is happiest [13] when the storm is tossing his ship. [10] He is not forced to ply continual labours: a short hour brings death or glory. So the boy is unwilling to obey, [1] 15 and wishes to become a man before h...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217339490
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217339492
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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