“With a mind undisturbed take life’s good and life’s evil,

Temper grief from despair, temper joy from vain-glory;

For, through each mortal change, equal mind,

O my Dellius, befits mortal born.”

—Horat. Carm. ii. 3, Lord Lytton’s trans.

[79].

“Fell Care climbs brazen galley’s sides;

Nor troops of horse can fly

Her foot, which than the stag’s is swifter—ay,

Swifter than Eurus when he madly rides