at non prior aureus ille sanguis avum scopulisque satae vel robore gentes artibus his usae; silvas amor unus humumque edomuisse manu; quid crastina volveret aetas scire nefas homini.
But that earlier golden race of our ancestors and the peoples born of rocks and timber  used not these skills.  Their one desire was to tame forest and earth with their hands; what the morrows years might bring twas sin for man to know.
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