In thy selfe alone thoul't learne to bee.

Ad Paulum Coslovium.

_Ode 35. Lib. 4._

To _Paulus Coslovius_.

_Ode 35. Lib. 4._

Iam pridem tepido veris anhelitu
Afflarunt reduces arva Favonii;
Jam se florida vernis
Pingunt prata coloribus:
Stratus frugiferis Vilia puppibus
Grato praeter abit rura silentio,
Quamvis proximus omni
Collis personet alite;
Quamvis & viridi pastor ab aggere
Dicat graminea carmina fistula.
Et qui navita debet
Plenis otia carbasis.

The Westerne winds, with the warm breath o'th'Spring,
Returne, and o're our fields their soft gales fling;
The flowry-garnish'd Meadowes by,
With freshest colours painted lye.
The River, which the gainfull ships so throng,
With welcome silence gently glides along,
Although the neighbouring Hill doth ring
With the shrill notes of birds that sing;
Although the Swaine, on the green bank that sits
Old Sonnets with his Oaten Pipe repeats,
Although the Seaman doth not faile
At length to strike his full blowne sayle.

AEquat Palladiis, _Paulle_, laboribus
Interpone vices. Cras simul aureo
Sol arriserit ore
Summorum juga montium,
Scandemus viridis terga Luciscii,
Qua celsa tegitur plurimus ilice,
Et se praetereuntum
Audit murmura fontium.
Illinc e medio tota videbitur
Nobis Vilna jugo; tota videbitur
Quae Vilnam sinuosis
Ambit Vilia flexibus.

To thy _Palladian_ labours interpose
Such changes _Paullus_; when the Sun forth showes
And with his golden presence smiles
On the hye tops of highest Hills,
Wee'l mount the back of green _Luciscus_, where
Hee's thickest set with tallest Okes, and heare
The bubbling noise of streames that flow
From Fountaines that close by him goe.
Thence from the midst o'th'hill all _Vilna_ shall
Our prospect be; our eye shall lower fall--
On _Vilia_'s cooler streames, that wind,
And with embraces _Vilna_ bind.

Illinc picta procul quae radiantibus
Fulgent fana tholis, & geminam super
Despectabimus arcem,
Magni regna Palaemonis.
Ut longo faciles Pacis in otio
Se tollunt populi! nam tria tertio
Surrexere sub anno
Priscis templa Quiritibus;
Et qua conspicuis se Gediminia
Jactant saxa jugis, & Capitolium,