RUBECULAM INVITATIO. I. HOSPES avis, conviva domo gratissima cuivis, Quam bruma humanam quærere cogit opem, Huc O! hyberni fugias ut frigora cœli, Confuge, et incolumis sub lare vive meo: Unde tuam esuriem releves, alimenta fenestræ Apponam, quoties itque reditque dies; Usu etenim edidici, quod grato alimenta rependes Cantu, quæ dederit cunque benigna manus. II. Vere novo, tepidæ spirant cum molliter auræ, But if another winter's blast Should bring me back my guest again, Again with music come prepar'd Thy friendly host to entertain. III. The sacred power of harmony In this its best effect appears, That friendship in the strictest bands You feather'd race with men agree; Of all the animated world The only harmonists are we. THE SNOW-DROP. WITH head reclin'd, the snow-drop see! The first of Flora's progeny, In virgin modesty appear, To hail and welcome in the year! Sin iterum, sin forte iterum, inclementia brumæ Ad mea dilectam tecta reducat avem, Esto, redux, grato memor esto rependere cantu III. Vis hinc harmoniæ, numerorum hinc sacra potestas Nos homines et aves, quotcunque animalia vivunt, FLORE PRIMITIÆ. VIRGINEUM casto caput en! recline pudore Flosculus ostentat, de nive nomen habens! Ecce! recens natum primus resalutet ut annum, Exerit e gelidâ se properanter humo ! Fearless of winter, it defies Though simple in its dress and plain, All that the gay or sweet compose, LOVE DISARMED. BY MR. PRIOR. BENEATH a myrtle's verdant shade, Cupid perch'd lightly on her breast, Nec rigidi conterret eum inclementia coli, Frigida nec Boreæ vis, hyemisque minæ ; Axe statim verso, quin protinus exit in auras, Veris ut instantis nuncia læta ferat. Nativo quamvis cultu candoreque simplex, Quicquid enim tenerum spirant, vel amabile miscent, AMOR INERMIS. QUA myrtus ramis viridem contexuit umbram. Huc tacito accessit tendens vestigia gressu, Et furtim in molli pectore sedit amor. |