<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341531" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Diffugere Nives</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Horace, Odes, iv, 7</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws<br>And grasses in the mead renew their birth,<br>The river to the river-bed withdraws,<br>And altered is the fashion of the earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Nymphs and Graces three put off their fear<br>And unapparelled in the woodland play.<br>The swift hour and the brief prime of the year<br>Say to the soul, Thou wast not born for aye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thaw follows frost; hard on the heel of spring<br>Treads summer sure to die, for hard on hers<br>Comes autumn with his apples scattering;<br>Then back to wintertide, when nothing stirs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But oh, whate'er the sky-led seasons mar,<br>Moon upon moon rebuilds it with her beams;<br>Come we where Tullus and where Ancus are<br>And good Aeneas, we are dust and dreams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Torquatus, if the gods in heaven shall add<br>The morrow to the day, what tongue has told?<br>Feast then thy heart, for what thy heart has had<br>The fingers of no heir will ever hold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thou descendest once the shades among,<br>The stern assize and equal judgment o'er,<br>Not thy long lineage nor thy golden tongue,<br>No, nor thy righteousness, shall friend thee more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night holds Hippolytus the pure of stain,<br>Diana steads him nothing, he must stay;<br>And Theseus leafves Pirithous in the chain<br>The love of comrades cannot take away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Edward+Housman">Alfred Edward Housman</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341531" data-title="Diffugere Nives de Alfred Edward Housman" data-description="Horace, Odes, iv, 7 The snows are fled away, leaves on the shaws And grasses in the mead renew their birth, The river to the river-bed withdraws, And altered is the fashion of the earth. The Nymphs and Graces three put off their fear And unappar..."></div> </div> </div>

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