The Odes of Horace Author:Horace Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ode in. TO THE SHIP WHICH CARRIED VIRGIL TO GREECE. Thee may the Goddess Queen of Cyprus, thee The heavenly twins of Leda born, Protect across the roll... more »ing sea From fading eve to rosy morn; And thee the King of Tempests guard From sunken rock and breaking wave (All winds save Zephyr being barred Within his mountain cave), Fair Ship! that bear'st my Virgil o'er To distant Athens' classic shore, Preserve him to his longing friends, and save My soul's far dearer half from an untimely grave. His breast was surely fortified With triple bars of oak and brass, Who first upon the stormy tide Ventured his fragile bark to guide, And dared the distant main to pass ;ODE III. AD NAVEM QUA VEIIEBATUR VIRGILIUS ATHENAS PROFICISCEN8. Sic te diva potens Cypri, Sic fratres Helenae, lucida sidera, Ventorumque regat pater, Obstrictis aliis, praeter Iapyga : Navis, quae tibi creditum Debes Virgilium finibus Atticis ; Reddas incolumem, precor, Et serves animse dimidium meae. Illi robur et aes triplex Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci Commisit pelago ratem Primus, nee timuit praecipitem AfricumNor feared the rage of warring winds Upturning the rebellious seas, And steered through nightly mist that blinds To mortal ken each friendly star, The pilot's beacon from afar, Arcturus or the Pleiades. Him could no forms of death affright, Who viewed with steadfast heart and sight The wallowing monsters of the ocean, And watched the melancholy night, While winds and waves in wild commotion Howled round th' Acroceraunian steep, Where many a broken keel betrays the treacherous deep. In vain hath God's all-wise decree Cleft the broad earth with trackless sea, If ships in bold defiance driven Cross the dread gulf ordained by Heaven. Mankind, s...« less