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Minor Latin poets; with introductions and English translations

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SULPICIUS LUPERCUSSERVASIUS JUNIORThe Work of TimeAll that Nature ever bore,Firm to look at, time makes hoar.Frail <strong>and</strong> fleeting more <strong>and</strong> more,Its strength in service losing.Streams fresh valley-routes pursue.Ancient courses change to new,When their banks are broken throughBy floods' persistent oozing.Cascades make rough tufa yieldPloughs wear thinner in the fieldRings that jewelled fingers wieldShow gold rubbed bright by using.IIIGreedAlas for the wretched craving after excessive incomes! What is the end on which the blind passionfor useless wealth rushes, so that the cursed hungerfor gold <strong>and</strong> greed unsatisfied may barter anyenormity for a recompense fraught <strong>with</strong> destruction ?p p577

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