Militia Colonel, Premier Peer,

Lieutenant of a County!

I speak high things! yet, god of wine,

For thee, I fear not to resign

These gifts of royal bounty.

[HORACE. BOOK III., ODE XXV. TO BACCHUS.

TRANSLATED BY FRANCIS.

Whither in sacred ecstasy,

Bacchus, when full of thy divinity,

Dost thou transport me? To what glades?