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Eugene Field - Horace To Maecenas
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How breaks my heart to hear you say
    You feel the shadows fall about you!
      The gods forefend
      That fate, O friend!
    I would not, I could not live without you!
  You gone, what would become of me,
    Your shadow, O beloved Maecenas?
      We`ve shared the mirth--
      And sweets of earth--
    Let`s share the pangs of death between us!

  I should not dread Chinaera`s breath
    Nor any threat of ghost infernal;
      Nor fear nor pain
      Should part us twain--
    For so have willed the powers eternal.
  No false allegiance have I sworn,
    And, whatsoever fate betide you,
      Mine be the part
      To cheer your heart--
    With loving song to fare beside you!

  Love snatched you from the claws of death
    And gave you to the grateful city;
      The falling tree
      That threatened me
    Did Fannus turn aside in pity;
  With horoscopes so wondrous like,
    Why question that we twain shall wander,
      As in this land,
      So, hand in hand,
    Into the life that waiteth yonder?

  So to your shrine, O patron mine,
    With precious wine and victims fare you;
      Poor as I am,
      A humble lamb
    Must testify what love I bear you.
  But to the skies shall sweetly rise
    The sacrifice from shrine and heather,
      And thither bear
      The solemn prayer
    That, when we go, we go together!
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