54. DOUBLE COOKING-VESSEL Who could believe such causes wrought this sight, With common laws of Nature? Lo, I bear Within my hollow belly fire and flood; 5 Yet billowing water may not quench the flames, Nor may dire heat dry up the welling streams, For wave and flame have made a pact of peace. Hammer and anvil long since shaped me thus. 55. CIBORIUM I am a house that shelters God's own gift, My body's outward parts, more rich and fine 56. BEAVER Upon steep banks along the stream I dwell- LVII. AQUILA 'Armiger infausti Iovis et raptor Ganimidis' Quamquam pellaces cantarent carmine vates, Non fueram præpes, quo fertur Dardana proles, Sed magis in summis cicnos agitabo fugaces 5 Arsantesque grues proturbo sub ætheris axe. Corpora dum senio corrumpit fessa vetustas, Fontibus in liquidis mergentis membra madescunt; Post hæc restauror præclaro lumine Phœbi. LVIII. VESPER SIDUS Tempore de primo noctis mihi nomen adhæsit, Occiduas mundi complector cardine partes; Oceano Titan dum corpus tinxerit almum Et polus in glaucis relabens volvitur undis, 5 Tum sequor, in vitreis recondens lumina campis Et fortunatus, subito ni tollar ab æthra, Ut furvas lumen noctis depelleret umbras. LIX. PENNA Me dudum genuit candens onocrotalus albam,、 57. EAGLE "The squire of unblessed Jupiter, and thief But I was not that bird who snatched away 58. EVENING STAR (VESPER) The early hours of night gave me my name; 5 Changing their course, roll back through crystal waves, Then do I follow, and conceal my light Beneath the glassy plain, and happy I (If I but be not cast down from the heavens) 59. PEN The shining pelican, whose yawning throat 5 Upon the gleaming way, and darkening The fair champaign with black and tortuous paths; Collibus in celsis sævi discrimina Martis, Quamvis venator frustra latrante moloso Garriat arcister contorquens spicula ferri, Nil vereor, magnis sed fretus viribus altos 5 Belliger impugnans elefantes vulnere sterno. Heu! fortuna ferox, quæ me sic arte fefellit, Dum trucido grandes et virgine vincor inermi! Nam gremium pandens mox pulchra puerpera prendit Et voti compos celsam deducit ad urbem. Io Indidit ex cornu nomen mihi lingua Pelasga; Sic itidem propria dixerunt voce Latini. LXI. PUGIO De terræ gremiis formabar primitus arte; LXII. FAMFALUCA De madido nascor rorantibus æthere guttis Though on the lofty hills the hunter urge And fell them, wounded sore. Yet cruel Fate, 61. DAGGER First, from earth's bosom was I brought, and shaped Artfully, while the rest of me was made From a ferocious bull or fetid goat. Through me the eyes of many close in death 5 Through me, who, bare of armor, yet essay To guard my master's life; my house is built Of shapen hide and smooth wood split from trees. 62. BUBBLE In dewy drops I come from rainy skies, And swell in form by falling with the shower. |