A MEMORIAL.
FROM THE LATIN OF STATIUS.
QUID referam expositos, servato pondere, mores ? Qua) pietas, quam vile lucrum, qum cura pudoris, Quantns amor recti, rursusque, ubi dulce remitti, Gratia qum dictis, animo quam nulla senectus.
Raperis, genitor, non indigos Non nimius, trinisque decem quinquennia lustris Juncta ferens : sed nec leti tibi janua tristis ; Sea to torpor iners, et mors imitate, quietem Explicuit, falsoque tulit sub Tartara somno.
IDEM ANGLIa REDDITITH.
How shall I tell thy manner frank and free, Save for the due control of gravity ?
The piety that held mere lucre light, The grasp of honour and the love of right ;
Or—pleased in gentler pastime to engage—
The grace of speech, and mind that could not age.
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Nor late nor early taken, Sire, wert thou ; For threescore years and five had stamped thy brow, When carried painless thro' the narrow door Death in Repose thy spirit overbore, And, while slow numbness o'er thy senses crept, So did'st thou die, as one that only slept.
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