Soracte stands, and, bending low,

Yon branches droop beneath their burden,

And streams o'erfrozen have ceased their flow.

Away with cold! the hearth pile high

With blazing logs; the goblet ply

With cheering Sabine, Thaliarchus;

Draw from the cask of long years gone by.

All else the gods entrust to keep,

Whose nod can lull the winds to sleep,

Vexing the ash and cypress agèd,