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FRAGMENT FROM BERENICE.

IF for good sport one prays and lucky gains,
Who from the sea his livelihood obtains,

His nets his plough: let him at evening-fall,
Offering a "white fish," on this goddess call-
The fish called "white" as brightest that doth swim ;
Nor shall his prayer be without fruit for him:

For let him throw his nets into the sea,

And he shall draw them full as they can be.

EPIGRAMS.

I.

THICK-GROWING thyme, and roses wet with dew

Are sacred to the sisterhood divine

Of Helicon the laurel, dark of hue,

The Delphian laurel, Pythian Pæan, thine!

For thee shall bleed the white ram which doth chew The downward hanging branch of turpentine.

II.

To Pan the fair-cheeked Daphnis, whose red lip

To his sweet pipe the pastoral wild notes married, Offered his pipe, crook, fawn-skin, spear, and scrip, Wherein he formerly his apples carried.

III.

Daphnis thou sleepest on the leaf-strown ground-
Thy hunting-nets are on the mountain pight:
Thee Pan is hunting-thee Priapus crowned
With ivy and its golden berries bright:
Into the cavern both together bound:

Up! shake off sleep, and safety find in flight.

IV.

Where yon

oak-thicket by the lane appears,

A statue newly made of fig is seen,

Three-legged, the bark on still, but without ears,

Witness of many a prank upon

the green.

A sacred grove runs round; soft-bubbling near,
A spring perennial from its pebbly seat
Makes many a tree to shoot and flourish there,
The laurel, myrtle, and the cypress sweet;

And the curled vine with clusters there doth float: Their sharp shrill tones the vernal blackbirds ring,

And yellow nightingales take up the note,

And warbling to the others sweetly sing.

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