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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 459 universe innumerable suns whose beams enlighten and cherish the unknown worlds which roll round them And while am ravished by such contemplations as these whilst my soul is thus raised up to heaven it imports me little what ground tread on Write in Latin prose the account of good orator IV EratiSlati into Satin QBhQiacS The sun is bright the air is clear The darting swallows soar and sing And from the stately elms hear The blue-bird prophesying Spring So blue yon winding river flows It seems an outlet from the sky Where waiting till the west wind blows The freighted clouds at anchor lie All things are new -the buds the leaves That gild the elm-tree's nodding crest And even the nest beneath the eaves There are no birds in last year's nest All things rejoice in youth and love The fulness of their first delight And learn from the soft heavens above The melting tenderness of night -translate into nglfefj Ha2c vero quae sunt in philosophia ingeniis eruuntur ad id quod in quoque verisimile est eliciendum acutis atque acribus eaque exercitata oratione poliuntur Hie noster vulgaris orator si minus erit doctus attamen in dicendo exercitatus hac ipsa exercitatione communi istos quidem nostros verberabit neque se ab iis contemn ac despici sinet Sin aliquis exstiterit ali- quando qui Aristotelio more de omnibus rebus in utramque