Show t Lider 1 Carmina r f r III Forget not to stand with a firm mind Maecenas Unruffled in tempest adverse to your plan Nor or fail to remember that joy should be tempered With stoical calmness befitting a man For death is a landmark to which we are tending Its distance is meagre in truth but a span Whether gravely you walk and lam lament nt on your journey Or spend the long day in a festal recline Neath some shady bough on on a velvety meadow In revelry sipping wine If H to grieve were lifes life's purpose and sorrow a duty Why think you the pine and the poplar would stand As if purposely reaching their outspreading branches To form by their union a shelter ter for man nian Or why does the rippling brook roil roll oil on its journey In sport oer o'er the pebbled Js from mountain to strand Then bring forth the wine jar the garland of roses Breath fragrance of perfume and bask in the sun While years and events are so quickly approaching The end of the thread the three sisters have spun Through your green mountain meadow the Tiber is ro rolling roiling By your castle and villa that rest on its sands Thou too like the river art passing before them thew While they to the heirs of a future shall stand Whether child of or in ill birth but a pauper Yet a victim of youre you're ruled by his hand baud N NIn s in In Fates Fate's s ur urn assembled assembled by them ever shaken Th The die of each mortal will surely appear As death boding Cl Charon aron is crossing the river Preparing to row us to re realms dark and drear A. A |