Vade meum doctas Federici carmen ad aures,
Nostra feras tanto verba legenda duci.
Num refugis? cur adire times? duros ne vereris
Vultus vel clausas ne patiare fores?
5Falleris, ah demens: dux te manibusque sinuque
Excipiet, placidis te leget ipse genis.
Namque hic, si nescis, pilaeo natus in antro est:
Doctaque Pieriis ora rigavit aquis:
Hic et terrificis Mars est velut alter in armis,
10Unde venit capiti laurea bina suo.
Surge igitur, magni sacras pete principis aedes,
Laurigerum dicas carmen avere ducem.
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