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To the same lady, when she returned
From where has your face returned to me with radiant light? What delays kept you absent too long? You had carried my joys away with you, and with you you bring them back, and you make me celebrate the Easter day twice over. Although the seeds are only now beginning to rise in the furrows, here today I reap by seeing you again. Already I gather the harvest, I lay out the peaceful sheaves: what the month of August usually does, April performs. And though only now in the early season the bud and the vine-shoot come forth, already my autumn has arrived, and the grape along with it. The apple tree and the tall pear now pour out pleasing fragrances, but with the new blossom they already bring me fruit. Although the bare field is adorned with no ears of grain, yet all things shine full now that you are returning.
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Ad eandem cum rediit
Vnde mihi rediit radianti lumine vultus?
quae nimis absentem te tenuere morae?
abstuleras tecum, revocas mea gaudia tecum,
paschalemque facis bis celebrare diem.
quamvis incipiant modo surgere semina sulcis,
hic egomet hodie te revidendo meto.
colligo iam fruges, placidos conpono maniplos:
quod solet Augustus mensis, Aprilis agit;
et licet in primis modo gemma et pampinus exit,
iam meus autumnus venit et uva simul.
malus et alta pirus gratos modo fundit odores,
sed cum flore novo iam mihi poma ferunt.
quamvis nudus ager nullis ornetur aristis,
omnia plena tamen te redeunte nitent.
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10 To the same lady, when she returned
From where has your face returned to me with radiant light? What delays kept you absent too long? You had carried my joys away with you, and with you you bring them back, and you make me celebrate the Easter day twice over. Although the seeds are only now beginning to rise in the furrows, here today I reap by seeing you again. Already I gather the harvest, I lay out the peaceful sheaves: what the month of August usually does, April performs. And though only now in the early season the bud and the vine-shoot come forth, already my autumn has arrived, and the grape along with it. The apple tree and the tall pear now pour out pleasing fragrances, but with the new blossom they already bring me fruit. Although the bare field is adorned with no ears of grain, yet all things shine full now that you are returning.
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Latin / Greek Original
X Ad eandem cum rediit Vnde mihi rediit radianti lumine vultus? quae nimis absentem te tenuere morae? abstuleras tecum, revocas mea gaudia tecum, paschalemque facis bis celebrare diem. quamvis incipiant modo surgere semina sulcis, hic egomet hodie te revidendo meto. colligo iam fruges, placidos conpono maniplos: quod solet Augustus mensis, Aprilis agit; et licet in primis modo gemma et pampinus exit, iam meus autumnus venit et uva simul. malus et alta pirus gratos modo fundit odores, sed cum flore novo iam mihi poma ferunt. quamvis nudus ager nullis ornetur aristis, omnia plena tamen te redeunte nitent.