Juno's Speech. - Translations From Horace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCD EFFF FGGF HIIH FFFF FJJF FKKF LMIL FFFF NCCN OFFO HHHH HHHH JFFJ PFFP QFFQ RSSR PTTP| OD iii | A |
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| The just man's single purposed mind | B |
| Not furious mobs that prompt to ill | C |
| May move nor kings' frowns shake his will | C |
| Which is as rock not warrior winds | D |
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| That keep the seas in wild unrest | E |
| Nor bolt by Jove's own finger hurled | F |
| The fragments of a shivered world | F |
| Would crash round him still self possest | F |
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| Jove's wandering son reached thus endowed | F |
| The fiery bastions of the skies | G |
| Thus Pollux with them Caesar lies | G |
| Beside his nectar radiant browed | F |
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| For this rewarded tiger drawn | H |
| Rode Bacchus reining necks before | I |
| Untamed for this War's horses bore | I |
| Quirinus up from Acheron | H |
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| When in heav'n's conclave Juno said | F |
| Thrice welcomed Troy is in the dust | F |
| Troy by a judge accursed unjust | F |
| And that strange woman prostrated | F |
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| The day Laomedon ignored | F |
| His god pledged word resigned to me | J |
| And Pallas ever pure was she | J |
| Her people and their traitor lord | F |
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| No more the Greek girl's guilty guest | F |
| Sits splendour girt Priam's perjured sons | K |
| Find not against the mighty ones | K |
| Of Greece a shield in Hector's breast | F |
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| And long drawn out by private jars | L |
| The war sleeps Lo my wrath is o'er | M |
| And him the Trojan vestal bore | I |
| Sprung of that hated line to Mars | L |
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| To Mars restore I His be rest | F |
| In halls of light by him be drained | F |
| The nectar bowl his place obtained | F |
| In the calm companies of the blest | F |
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| While betwixt Rome and Ilion raves | N |
| A length of ocean where they will | C |
| Rise empires for the exiles still | C |
| While Paris's and Priam's graves | N |
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| Are hoof trod and the she wolf breeds | O |
| Securely there unharmed shall stand | F |
| Rome's lustrous Capitol her hand | F |
| Impose proud laws on trampled Medes | O |
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| Wide feared to far off climes be borne | H |
| Her story where the central main | H |
| Europe and Libya parts in twain | H |
| Where full Nile laves a land of corn | H |
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| The buried secret of the mine | H |
| Best left there resolute to spurn | H |
| And not to man's base uses turn | H |
| With hand that spares not things divine | H |
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| Earth's utmost end where'er it be | J |
| May her hosts reach careering proud | F |
| O'er lands where watery rain and cloud | F |
| Or where wild suns hold revelry | J |
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| But to the soldier sons of Rome | P |
| Tied by this law such fates are willed | F |
| That they seek never to rebuild | F |
| Too fond too bold their grandsires' home | P |
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| With darkest omens deadliest strife | Q |
| Shall Troy raised up again repeat | F |
| Her history I the victor fleet | F |
| Shall lead Jove's sister and his wife | Q |
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| Thrice let Apollo rear the wall | R |
| Of brass and thrice my Greeks shall hew | S |
| The fabric down thrice matrons rue | S |
| In chains their sons' their husbands' fall | R |
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| Ill my light lyre such notes beseem | P |
| Stay Muse nor wayward still rehearse | T |
| God utterances in puny verse | T |
| That may but mar a mighty theme | P |
Charles Stuart Calverley
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