Is he gone To Pluto's dreary realms below? For him, as dead, with pious care This goblet I prepare; And on the bosom of the earth shall flow Streams from the heifer mountain-bred, The grape's rich juice, and, mix'd with these, The labour of the yellow bees, Libations soothing to the dead. Give me the oblation: let me hold The foaming goblet's hallow'd gold.英文原著 · 《Iphigenia in Tauris》
Now, ye sage spirits, which infuse in men That are oblidg'd twice to oblige agen, Informe my tongue in labour what to say, And in what coyne or language to repay. But you are silent as the ev'nings ayre, When windes unto their hollow grots repaire.<46.3> Oh, then accept the all that left me is, Devout oblations of a sacred wish!英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
Come, cut off the first offering and make the oblation.英文原著 · 《Peace》
In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.英文原著 · 《The Four Million》
Carathis, whose presence of mind never forsook her, perceiving that she had carcases sufficient to complete her oblation, commanded the chains to be stretched across the staircase, and the iron doors barricaded, that no more might come up.英文原著 · 《The History of Caliph Vathek》