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To A Faun. - Translations From Horace.

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OD. iii. 18.     Wooer of young Nymphs who fly thee,      Lightly o'er my sunlit lawn     Trip, and go, nor injured by thee      Be my weanling herds, O Faun:     If the kid his doomed head bows, and      Brims with wine the loving cup,     When the year is full; and thousand      Scents from altars hoar go up.     Each flock in the rich grass gambols      When the month comes which is thine;     And the happy village rambles      Fieldward with the idle kine:     Lambs play on, the wolf their neighbour:      Wild woods deck thee with their spoil;     And with glee the sons of labour      Stamp thrice on their foe, the soil.

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