Odes 1.36 (Creech): Et Thure, Et Fidibus

'TIs pious Duty now to praise
With Incense, Songs and sacred Lays,
And with a promis'd Heifers blood
My Numida's kind guardian God:
Who safely now return'd again
From the remotest Parts of Spain,
To thronging Friends on every side
A thousand Kisses does divide;
But Dearest Lamia most receives,
And takes as gladly as He gives:
Their equal Love at School began,
Both the same Race of Vertue ran;
And both at once grew up to Man:
Be every Head with Garlands Crownd,
And let the flowing Bowl go round:
Let fading Lillys and the Rose
Their Beauty, and their smells disclose,
Let long-liv'd Parsly grace the Feast,
And gently cool the heated Guest:
Then all on Beauteous Damalis
Shall lose their gloating wanton Eyes;
But her no Charms no Nods shall move,
And none divide her from her Love;
She shall imbrace her young Gallant
As twining Ivy clasps the growing Plant: