Hero and Leander. A tale of love / Translated from ... Musaeus. With other poems [by the translator] By Francis Adam [i.e. Adams].

  • Musaeus, Grammaticus
Date:
1821
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Credit: Hero and Leander. A tale of love / Translated from ... Musaeus. With other poems [by the translator] By Francis Adam [i.e. Adams]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XII. ELEGIA. Dura manet loiigo lex inviolabilis aevo: Mox fiat piilvis pulvere factus homo.” Saepe rosam videas prima gaudere juventa Flores Eoo sole fovente novos : Atque illam repctes gelida si vesperis Iiora Moerebis pulchras jam cecidisse comas. Talis homo est: qui nuncgestis juvenilibus annis Mox senii duras experiere vices. Aiifugiunt anni rapida properantius umbra Tempore quae verno transvolat arva levis. Omnia languebunt morsu vitiata senectae : Omnia crudeli mors reget imperio. Sic florem prati nuper decus halitus urit Trux Boreae: campo mortuus ecce ! jacet. Arbor et aerio praerupti culmine montis Formosis ramos nunc onerata comis, Sternit humum foliis saeva veniente procellu Brumae: stat capitis tegmine nuda sui. Prata tamen flores et frondes arbor habebit Ut veris terram mollior aura fovet;