To His Slave. - Translations From Horace.

"In the Gloaming to be roaming, where the crested waves are foaming,      And the shy mermaidens combing locks that ripple to their feet;     Whe"

"In those old days which poets say were golden -      (Perhaps they laid the gilding on themselves:     And, if they did, I'm all the more behold"

"Now the "rosy morn appearing"      Floods with light the dazzled heaven;     And the schoolboy groans on hearing      That eternal clock strike"

"You see this pebble-stone? It's a thing I bought     Of a bit of a chit of a boy i' the mid o' the day -     I like to dock the smaller parts-o'"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"