Satires (Horace)/Qui fit, Maecenas
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| Qui fit, Maecenas by Horace | [[../Omnibus hoc vitium|Omnibus hoc vitium]] |
| Translated by John Conington |
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}}How comes it, say, Maecenas, if you can,
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}}That none will live like a contented man
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}}Where choice or chance directs, but each must praise
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}}The folk who pass through life by other ways?
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}}"Those lucky merchants!" cries the soldier stout,
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}}When years of toil have well-nigh worn him out:
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}}What says the merchant, tossing o'er the brine?
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}}"Yon soldier's lot is happier, sure, than mine:
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}}One short, sharp shock, and presto! all is done:
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}}Death in an instant comes, or victory's won."
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}}The lawyer lauds the farmer, when a knock
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}}Disturbs his sleep at crowing of the cock:
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}}The farmer, dragged to town on business, swears
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}}That only citizens are free from cares.
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}}I need not run through all: so long the list,
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}}Fabius himself would weary and desist:
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}}So take in brief my meaning: just suppose
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}}Some God should come, and with their wishes close:
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}}"See, here am I, come down of my mere grace
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}}To right you: soldier, take the merchant's place!
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}}You, counsellor, the farmer's! go your way,
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}}One here, one there! None stirring? all say nay?
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}}How now? you won't be happy when you may."
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}}Now, after this, would Jove be aught to blame
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}}If with both cheeks he burst into a flame,
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}}And vowed, when next they pray, they shall not find
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}}Well, not to treat things lightly (though, for me,
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}}Why truth may not be gay, I cannot see:
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}}Just as, we know, judicious teachers coax
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}}With sugar-plum or cake their little folks
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}}To learn their alphabet):--still, we will try
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}}A graver tone, and lay our joking by.
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}}The man that with his plough subdues the land,
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}}The soldier stout, the vintner sly and bland,
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}}The venturous sons of ocean, all declare
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}}That with one view the toils of life they bear,
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}}When age has come, and labour has amassed
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}}Enough to live on, to retire at last:
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}}E'en so the ant (for no bad pattern she),
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