Odes Horace Horace. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace. Conington, John, translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1882. Heaven is my guardian; heaven approvesA blameless life, by song made sweet;Come hither, and the fields and grovesTheir horn shall empty at your feet.Here, shelter'd by a friendiy tree,In Teian measures you shall singBright Circe and Penelope,Love-smitten both by one sharp sting.Here shall you quaff beneath the shadeSweet Lesbian draughts that injure none,Nor fear lest Mars the realm invadeOf Semele's Thyonian son,