TO THE FOUNTAIN OF BANDUSIA (ODES, III, 13)
by: Horace (Quintus Horatius
Flaccus) (65-8 B.C.)
- FOUNTAIN
of Bandusia!
- Whence crystal waters flow.
- With garlands gay and wine I'll pay
- The sacrifice I owe;
- A sportive kid with budding horns
- I have, whose crimson blood
- Anon shall dye and sanctify
- Thy cool and babbling flood.
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- O fountain of Bandusia!
- The Dog-star's hateful spell
- No evil brings into the springs
- That from thy bosom well;
- Here oxen, wearied by the plow,
- The roving cattle here
- Hasten in quest of certain rest,
- And quaff thy gracious cheer.
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- O fountain of Bandusia!
- Ennobled shalt thou be,
- For I shall sing the joys that spring
- Beneath yon ilex-tree.
- Yes, fountain of Bandusia,
- Posterity shall know
- The cooling brooks that from thy nooks,
- Singing and dancing go.
This English translation of "To
the Fountain of Bandusia" was composed by Eugene Field (1850-1895). |
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