O, what can match the green recess,Whose honey not to Hybla yields,Whose olives vie with those that blessVenafrum's fields?Long springs, mild winters glad that spotBy Jove's good grace, and Aulon, dearTo fruitful Bacchus, envies notFalernian cheer.That spot, those happy heights desireOur sojourn; there, when life shall end,Your tear shall dew my yet warm pyre,Your bard and friend.O, oft with me in troublous timeInvolved, when Brutus warr'd in Greece,Who gives you back to your own climeAnd your own gods, a man of peace,Pompey, the earliest friend I knew,With whom I oft cut short the hoursWith wine, my hair bright bathed in dewOf Syrian oils, and wreathed with flowers?