Odes

Horace

Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882.

Who the uneven Muses loves,

Will fire his dizzy brain with three times three;

Three once told the Grace approves;

She with her two bright sisters, gay and free,

Shrinks, as maiden should, from strife:

But I'm for madness. What has dull'd the fire

Of the Berecyntian fife?

Why hangs the flute in silence with the lyre?