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TO DELIUS.
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Original of the foregoing.

Æquam memento rebus in arduis
Servare mentem, non secus in bonis
    Ab insolenti temperatam
        Lætitia; moriture Delli,
Seu mœstus omni tempore vixeris,
Seu te in remoto gramine per dies
    Festos reclinatum beâris
        Interiore notâ Falerni.
Qua pinus ingens, albaque populus,
Umbram hospitalem consociare amant
    Ramis, et obliquo laborat
        Lympha fugax trepidare rivo;
Huc vina, et unguenta, et nimium brevis
Flores amœnos ferre jube rosæ,
    Dum res, et ætas, et sororum
Fila trium patiuntur atra.