Carmen Seculare

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Excerpt from Carmen Seculare: A Poem Carmen Seculare Crispo. You might have mentioned bean-flowers, barley-rigs, Hop-vines, marsh-mallows, and the hazel twigs: Also the she-goats, heifers, and young pigs. There are a hundred things you might rehearse, With which bucolic singers deck their verse: All that unreal world, that Arcady, Shown on the sides of antique pottery. Be such the joy of the unlettered clown: Give me the turnpike leading to the town. I quite agree with him who thought to find His proper field of study in mankind. Quintus. When years bring wisdom, men draw quiet breath, And dread uncouth confusion worse than death. What has the bellowing city that allures A staid and unambitious mind like yours? Crispo. A thousand things: and if I died before I saw the town, and heard the rabble's roar, Though there be many things that make me blest, I'd think myself defrauded of the best. Quintus. I thought the "best, " by every sage allowed, Meant wholesome distance from the venal crowd: The husbandman's retirement, wisely sought, By virtue marked and philosophic thought, With just enough of toil to give life zest, And welcome evening with its pledge of rest, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.