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For, springing thick in every field,The earth does golden flowers spontaneous yield; 155And, in every limpid stream,The budding gold is seen to gleam:
EPODE IV.Measures 10.
Fair heritage! by righteous Rhadamanth's award;Who, coequal, takes his seatWith Saturn sire divine, 160Thy consort, Rhea, who above the rest dost shine,High-thron'd, thou matron-goddess great:These among(Blissful throng!)Does Peleus and does Cadmus find regard; 165And, through his mother's winning prayerTo Jove, Achilles dwells immortal there:
STROPHE V.Measures 16.
He who Hector did destroy,The pillar firm, the whole support, of Troy,And Cycnus gave to dy, 170And Aurora's Æthiop son.My arm beneath yet many darts have I,

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