New gain, new life—yea, from the very steel.”
—Horat. Carm. iv. 4, Lord Lytton’s Trans.
“Constant I praise her, but resign
With equal mind her gifts.
When, swift deserting me and mine,
Her ready wing she lifts,
And, wrapped up in my virtue, wait
Fair Poverty’s undower’d estate.”
—Horat. Carm. iii. 29.