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PARAPHRASES FROM HORACE.

ODES III. 13.

OUR College Pump! thy crystal stream

That cools my burning thirst,

Is worthy of sweet wine and flowers

(Though better with the first)

I'll sacrifice a calf to thee,

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There's many a one about.

'T will be sweet sacrifice to me

To put one fellow out.

And though he dreams of love and bets

And poker to be won,

Thy sparkling stream and his blue blood

Shall mingle into one.

Thou cool'st the burning Dog-star's heat, -

A bulldog-star is he;

And oft to drink, the wandering herd

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