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ODES I, 21. INVOCATION by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS

First Line: MAIDENS YOUNG AND VIRGINS TENDER
Last Line: ALL THE WARS AND PLAGUES WE'RE BLESSED WITH.)
MAIDENS young and virgins tender,
Sing Diana in her splendor;
Boys at play within the hollow,
Sing the flowing-haired Apollo.

(Ye that, moved by love and duty,
Praise Diana's holy beauty,
Shall be granted joys unceasing
And, perhaps, a mate that's pleasing.)

(And if winning words we hit on,
Phœbus may present the Briton,
Persian, Parthian and the rest, with
All the wars and plagues @3we're@1 blessed with.)



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