Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

TIBERIANUSIVAlmighty Beins:. to wliom heaven's aije, ancientof years, showeth reverence, whom for ever Oneamid a thousand attributes, no man shall e'er havepower to apprai«;e in number or in time, now bethou addressed if under any name it is fittinfj toaddress thee ;yet even in name unknown thouhast thy hallowed joy, when mia:htiest earth shudderethand wandering constellations stay theirrapid courses. Thou art alone, yet in thyself many,thou art first and likewise last, and midway intime A\'ithal, outliving the world. For without endfor thyself, thou bringest the gliding seasons to anend. On high from everlasting thou beholdest thecruel destinies of the world awhirl in their predestinedcycle, living souls in the coils of time, andagain on their return restored to the vault above,doubtless so that there may come back to the worldwhat it has lost, exhausted by birth-^, and that thismay again flow through the seasons of time. Thou (ifindeed it is allowed towards thee to direct the sensesand essav to grasp the hallowed beauty wherewith inthine immeasurable power thou dost invest the starsand dost embrace withal the far-stretched upper air)in some quick guise mayhap with lightning limbs artlike a flame-flo\\-ing radiance wherewith thou dostcause to flash all the world beneath thine own eyesand speedest onward the sunlight of our day. Thouart the whole kindred of the gods, thou art the causeand energy of things, thou art all nature, one godbeyond reckoning, thou art full of the whole of sex,for thee cometh to birth upon a day here a god, here" CJ. Virg. Aen. VI. 2-41, supcra ad conveza fcrebai.565