Where the star Canope shines in May,
Shepherds are thankful and nations gay.
The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill, is cordial speech:
Mask thy wisdom with delight,
Toy with the bow, yet hit the white.
Of all wit's uses, the main one

Is to live well with who has none.
Cleave to thine acre; the round year
Will fetch all fruits and virtues here:
Fool and foe may harmless roam,
Loved and lovers bide at home.
A day for toil, an hour for sport,
But for a friend is life too short.

QUATRAINS AND TRANSLATIONS.

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TRANSLATIONS.

QUATRAINS.

S. H.

ITH beams December planets dart
His cold eye truth and conduct scanned,

July was in his sunny heart,

October in his liberal hand.

A. H.

HIGH was her heart, and yet was well inclined,
Her manners made of bounty well refined;

Far capitals, and marble courts, her eye still seemed

to see,

Minstrels, and kings, and high-born dames, and of the best that be.

"SUUM CUIQUE."

WILT thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill.

HUSH!

EVERY thought is public,
Every nook is wide;

Thy gossips spread each whisper,
And the gods from side to side.

ORATOR.

HE who has no hands
Perforce must use his tongue;
Foxes are so cunning

Because they are not strong.

ARTIST.

QUIT the hut, frequent the palace,
Reck not what the people say;
For still, where'er the trees grow biggest,
Huntsmen find the easiest way.

POET.

EVER the poet from the land
Steers his bark, and trims his sail ;
Right out to sea his courses stand,
New worlds to find in pinnace frail.

POET.

To clothe the fiery thought
In simple words succeeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.

BOTANIST.

Go thou to thy learned task,
I stay with the flowers of Spring:
Do thou of the Ages ask

What me the Hours will bring.