“Jamque opus exegi:  quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignes,
    Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas. 
    Cum volet illa dies, quae nil nisi corporis hujus
    Jus habet, incerti spatium mihi finiat aevi,—­
    Parte tamen meliore mei super alta perennis
    Astra ferar:  nomenque erit indelebile nostrum. 
    Quaque patet domitis Romana potentia terris,
    Ore legar populi; perque omnia saecula fama
    Si quid habent veri vatum praesagia VIVAM.”

    “Now have I done my work:  which not Jove’s ire
    Can make undone, nor sword nor time nor fire. 
    Whene’er that day, whose only powers extend
    Against this body, my brief life shall end,
    Still in my better portion evermore
    Above the stars undying shall I soar. 
    My name shall never die; but through all time
    Whenever Rome shall reach a conquer’d clime,
    There, in that people’s tongue, shall this my page
    Be read and glorified from age to age:—­
    Yea, if the bodings of my spirit give
    True note of inspiration, I shall live!”

THE END.

Transcriber’s Notes

Page 44:  added closing parenthesis after “contempt]!”
Page 296:  added closing parenthesis after “patriotic but peculiar”
Page 297:  removed opening parenthesis after “Rifledom—­were once to a
  comma”