CONTENTS EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES- 1. Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air vII. O flower of all that springs from gentle blood IX. Pause, courteous Spirit !-Baldi supplicates 22223 EPITAPHS AND ELEGIAC PIECES EPITAPHS TRANSLATED FROM CHIABRERA I EEP not, beloved Friends! nor let the air WE For me with sighs be troubled. Not from life Have I been taken; this is genuine life And this alone-the life which now I live His tombstone thus should speak for him. And surely That keeps not faith, nor yet can point a hope II Published 1837 ERHAPS some needful service of the State PER Drew TITUS from the depth of studious bowers, And doomed him to contend in faithless courts, Where gold determines between right and wrong. Yet did at length his loyalty of heart, And his pure native genius, lead him back To wait upon the bright and gracious Muses, Whom he had early loved. And not in vain Such course he held! Bologna's learned schools Were gladdened by the Sage's voice, and hung With fondness on those sweet Nestorian strains. There pleasure crowned his days; and all his thoughts A roseate fragrance breathed.1-O human life, That never art secure from dolorous change! The Translator had not skill to come nearer to his original. ΤΟ ΙΟ |