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The description of Virgil's happiness in his little farm, combines almost all the images of rural pleasure; and he, therefore, that can read it with indifference, has no sense of pastoral poetry: Fortunate senex! ergo tua rura manebunt, Et tibi magna satis; quamvis lapis omnia nudus, Limosoque palus obducat pascua junco: Non insueta graves tentabunt pabula foetas, Nec mala vicini pecoris contagia loedent.
Better were the old life we started from, and dreams therewith, better the free days "Novitas tum florida mundi Pabula dia tulit, miseris mortablibus ampla;" than wealth or power, and neither hope nor fear, but one certain end of all before the eyes of all.
Ah, my friend, wait till you are reduced to a skeleton by gaunt famine and coarse, loathsome food until you have waded a Makata swamp, and marched 525 miles in thirty-five days through such weather as we have had then you will think such pabula, food fit for gods!
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