SPRING

by: Anacreon (c.572-488 BC)

      EE the Spring herself discloses,
      And the Graces gather roses;
      See how the becalmed seas
      Now their swelling waves appease;
      How the duck swims, how the crane
      Comes from winter home again;
      See how Titan's cheerful ray
      Chaseth the dark clouds away;
      Now in their new robes of green
      Are the plowman's labors seen:
      Now the lusty teeming Earth
      Springs each hour with a new birth;
      Now the olive blooms: the vine
      Now doth with plump pendants shine;
      And with leaves and blossoms now
      Freshly bourgeons every bough.
       
      TRANSLATED BY THOMAS STANLEY, 1651

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