Odes

Horace

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

  • And fashioning with puny powers
  • A laboured song.
  • Your Muse shall sing in loftier strain
  • How Caesar climbs the sacred height,
  • The fierce Sygambrians in his train,
  • With laurel dight,
  • Than whom the Fates ne'er gave mankind
  • A richer treasure or more dear,
  • Nor shall, though earth again should find
  • The golden year.
  • Your Muse shall tell of public sports,
  • And holyday, and votive feast,