POETRY.

MORE HAWARDEN HORACE.

AD CASTELLUM TANTALLONICUM —(0d. L 3.) Sic to diva potens Cypri, Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera,

Ventorumqae regat pater Obstrietis aliis praeter Iapyga, Navis, quae tibi ereditum Llebes Virgilium, finibus Atticis Reddas incolumem, precor, Et serves animae dimidium mess.

0 CHICKENS of our kindly Mother Carey,

0 cherub sweet that sittest up aloft, Restrain, I pray, within their cavern airy All winds but those that are serene and soft :

That so a mild melodious obbli- gato

Of murmuring Zephyrs swift upon its way May speed the ship that bears the great Barnat) From Albion's shores to dis- tant Table Bay.

flu robur et lies triplex Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci

Commisit pelage ratem Primus nee timuit ptaecipitem Africum Decertantem Aquilonibus Nec tristes Hyadas nee rabiem Noti, Quo non arbiter Hadriae Major, tonere seu ponere vult frets.

Quem Mortis timuit gradum, Qui sleds °culls monstra natantia,

Qui vidit mare turgidum et Infames seopulos Acroceraunia?

Nequicquam deus abscidit Prudens Oceans) dissociabili Terms, si tamen impiae Non tangenda rates transiliunt vada.

Audax mania perpeti Gens human°, ruit per vetitum nefas.

Audax Lipeti genus Ignem fraud@ mala gentibus intid it.

Post ignem aetheria douio Subductutu macies et nova febrium Terris incubuit cohors, Semotique prius tarda necessita,s Leti corripuit gradum.

Expertus vacuum Daedalus sOra Pennis non homini datis ; Perrupit Aeheronta Herculetts labor.

Nil mortalibus ardui est ; Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia neque Per nostrum patimur scelus Iracunda Jovem ponere fultnina.

The man who first on South Sea speculation Embarked, 0 Barney, surely must have had

A nerve like his who saved the situation

When Kaffir stocks went slumping down like mad : Who "faced the music" with a simple tankard,

Defied the captious questions of the crank, And quelled the storm of critics cross and cankered

Who raged and raved and blusteled round his Bank.

He who pursues his course with mien unflinching, Mid all the " deeps" and reefs within the Rand, Despises dynamite and laughs at lynching Though Sharks, Bulls, Bears, and Boers around him stand. 0 vainly Heav'n, to save man- kind from worry, Has severed shore front shore with perilous ways, If the unconscionable Donald Currie Can take you to the Cape in eighteen days !

Presumptuous man, unriddling Wry rebus,

Res roughshol to his goal with impious fey;

Purloins the special spectacles of Phcebus, And turns the lightning to an errand-boy.

Yet ev'ry day, in fitting retri- bution, Some new bacillus rears its hideous bead, And Death, by Maxims and elect f roc11-0n, Hastens its slow inevitable tread.

Herr Lilienthal, dull earth on pinions spurning, Has flown four hundred yards, adventurous soul ; While Nansen, hardy Norseman, is returning In triumph from his conquest of the Pole.

Forlornest hopes are now the most inviting ; Each cradle holds a future Captain Kidd; Nor will balloonaties refrain from slighting The menace of the meteor of Madrid.

C. L. GRAVES.