• Translated by John Addington Symonds

    LAUREL-CROWNED Horatius,
      True, how true thy saying!
    Swift as wind flies over us
      Time, devouring, slaying.
    Where are, oh! those goblets full
      Of wine honey-laden,
    Strifes and loves and bountiful
      Lips of ruddy maiden?

    Grows the young grape tenderly,
      And the maid is...