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A life unintangled with woe; 70For none are able to discloseThe seasons of the uncertain ebbs and flowsNow of pleasures, now of pains,Which hidden fate to men ordains:
EPODE II.Measures 10.
Thus providence, that to thy ancestry, long-famed, 75Portions out a pleasing shareOf heaven-sprung happiness,Does, ceasing in another turn of time to bless,Distribute some reverse of care,As from years 80Pass'd appears,Since the predestin'd son, at Pytho named,Did Laius, blindly meeting, kill,And the oracle, of old pronounc'd, fulfil:
STROPHE III.Measures 16.
Fell Erinnys, quick to view 85The deed, his warlike sons in battle slew,Each by the other's rage:But to Polynices slainSurvived Thersander, glory of his age,

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