Dear Valgius, lies the cold dull snowThrough all the year; nor northwinds keenUpon Garganian oakwoods blow,And strip the ashes of their green.You still with tearful tones pursueYour lost, lost Mystes; Hesper seesYour passion when he brings the dew,And when before the sun he flees.Yet not for loved AntilochusGrey Nestor wasted all his yearsIn grief; nor o'er young TroilusHis parents' and his sisters' tearsFor ever flow'd. At length have doneWith these soft sorrows; rather tellOf Caesar's trophies newly won,And hoar Niphates' icy fell,And Medus' flood, 'mid conquer'd tribesRolling a less presumptuous tide,And Scythians taught, as Rome prescribes,Henceforth o'er narrower steppes to ride.