Odes From Horace. - [1]on The Pleasures Of Rural Life. Book The Fifth, Epode The Second Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Odes From Horace. - [1]on The Pleasures Of Rural Life. Book The Fifth, Epode The Second Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Thrice happy he whose life restores	B
The pleasures pure of early times	C
That ne'er with anxious heart explores	B
The rugged heights Ambition climbs	C
Exempt from all the din the toil the care	D
That Cities for their busy Sons prepare	D
Fatigue beneath the name of pleasure	E
Contentious law usurious treasure	E
A tedious mean attendance on the Great	F
And emulation vain of all their pomp and state	F
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Not his sound and balmy sleep	G
The trumpet's martial warning breaks	H
Nor the loud billows of the angry Deep	G
When thro' the straining cords the Tempest shrieks	I
But the Morning's choral lay	J
Chanted wild from every spray	J
Swift at the summons flies the wilder'd dream	K
And up he springs alert to meet the orient beam	K
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The vine clad hill he lightly scales	L
Where tall the frequent poplars rise	M
From branch to branch assiduous trails	L
The pendent clusters rich supplies	M
And cautious prunes the weak the useless shoot	N
Engrafting healthier boughs that promise fruit	N
Then his arms serenely folding	O
And the smiling scene beholding	O
Marks as the fertile valley winds away	J
His Flocks and lowing Herds in ample numbers stray	J
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Then to the warm bank below	P
Yellow with the morning ray	J
And sees his shelter'd hives in even row	P
And hears their hum mix with the linnet's lay	J
Recent from the crystal springs	Q
Many a vessel pure he brings	Q
In them from all the waxen cells to drain	R
The fragrant essence rich of flow'ry dale and plain	R
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On the river's shady side	S
White his gather'd flock appears	T
And plung'd into the flashing tide	S
Their curl'd and snowy fleece he shears	U
But when 'mid laughing fields diffusive spread	V
Majestic Autumn rears her placid head	V
Wreath'd with wheaten garlands yellow	P
Bearing various fruitage mellow	P
How gladly from the trees that loaded stand	W
Shakes he the ripen'd pears engrafted by his hand	W
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II	A
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Or his swelling grapes that vie	A
With the fleece of Tyrian stain	R
Such precious gifts his grateful cares supply	A
To thee Protector of his wide domain	R
Bounteous Sylvanus and to thee	X
The garden's watchful Deity	X
Beneath your favoring power he little cares	Y
Who wields the Lictor's rod or who the fasces bears	Y
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In sultry noon's oppressive ray	J
Beneath the holme of ample shade	Z
His listless limbs he loves to lay	J
On herbage matted in the glade	Z
Hears down the steeps the white rills dashing play	J
Till under the long grass they purl away	J
While on wing of swift vibration	A2
Murmuring range the honied nation	A2
And the sweet stock dove the thick boughs among	B2
His dewy slumber courts with her complaining song	C2
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Loud when wintry winds arise	M
And the feeble race appal	J
While o'er the earth from dim and thicken'd skies	M
The flaky snows in white profusion fall	J
Then the sylvan chase he seeks	I
Lo furious from the thicket breaks	H
The gnashing Boar Flies he or stands at bay	J
Into the circling toils the staunch dogs drive the prey	J
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When thro' the clear and sparkling air	D
Fleet the pointed darts of frost	D2
The filmy nets now here now there	D
For thievish birds are lightly toss'd	D2
Or plac'd with silent heed the wily snares	Y
To lure the stranger cranes and timid hares	Y
Rich viands they whose pleasing flavor	E
Crown his board reward his labor	E
In those convivial hours the Heart forgets	E2
Its vain tumultuous hopes and all its fond regrets	E2
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These the pleasures unalloy'd	F2
That brighten oft the rural scene	G2
But if yet dearer joys supply the void	F2
That even there will sometimes intervene	G2
When days are cold and nights are long	C2
And business goes a little wrong	C2
Should an endearing faithful Wife be seen	G2
With the warm light of love she chases gloomy spleen	G2
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As the Sabine Matron chaste	H2
Active as th' Apulian Wife	I2
See she assumes with cheerful haste	H2
The pleasing cares of wedded life	I2
Draws the clean vestment o'er the little limbs	J2
And when the tearful eye of passion swims	J2
With mild authority commanding	O
Repressing ill and good expanding	O
Anxious she weeds the infant heart betimes	J2
Ere ill propension thrive and ripen into crimes	J2
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Dusky grows the winter eve	K2
In hurdled cotes the flocks are penn'd	L2
Her vessels pure the frothing milk receive	K2
As from swell'd udders its full streams descend	L2
Bright the crackling faggots blaze	J2
While she strains the eager gaze	J2
O'er the dim vale to see her Husband come	M2
With tir'd yet willing step to his warm happy home	N2
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Her beating heart and gladden'd eyes	J2
Perceive him ope the wicker gate	F
And swift her busy hand supplies	J2
The flowing bowl the steaming plate	F
Her sparkling wine from their own vintage press'd	O2
From their own stores her grateful viand dress'd	O2
Less welcome far the proud collation	G2
Cull'd with painful preparation	G2
When earth and air and seas have been explor'd	P2
For those expensive meats that pile the Consul's board	P2
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Not the shell fish pampering food	Q2
Of Lucrine's azure lake the boast	R2
Nor luscious product of the eastern flood	S2
Driven by the stormy winds upon our coast	R2
Nor costly birds that hither rove	T2
Natives of Ionian grove	T2
Can with more poignant zest his senses meet	U2
Than the love kneaded cates of this unpurchas'd treat	U2
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To his border's guardian Power	E
When he spreads the vernal feast	V2
Then bleeds the kid in lucky hour	E
From the hungry wolf releas'd	V2
Then round the primal lamb's sweet flesh is seen	G2
The crisp salubrious herbage of the green	G2
And from loaded boughs descending	O
Unctuous olives richly blending	O
These form the dainties of his festal day	J
When every heart expands and every face is gay	J
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Circled by a jocund train	G2
With joy the new shorn Flock he hears	J2
Come bleating homeward o'er the russet plain	G2
While slow with languid neck the weary Steers	J2
Th' inverted ploughshare drag along	C2
Mindless of the Shepherd's song	C2
Then round his smiling Household Gods surveys	J2
A numerous menial Group the proof of prosperous days	J2
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'T was thus amidst his ill got wealth	W2
The Roman Usurer justly thought	X2
Resolv'd to purchase peace and health	W2
And live at length as Nature taught	X2
No more with subtle avarice to lend	L2
Oppressive foe beneath the name of friend	L2
Now grasping views for once rejected	Y2
He on the Ides his sums collected	S2
But on the Calends lo with anxious pain	G2
On the same interest vast he sends them forth again	G2
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Thus can lust of gold controul	J
Tho' the Heart urge a wiser choice	J2
By force of habit lord it o'er the Soul	J
And stifle e'en Conviction's powerful voice	J2
See with sighs the Miser yield	Z2
The promis'd joys of wood and field	Z2
Against experienc'd disappointment try	A
With Gold to purchase that which Gold can never buy	A