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.
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- TRANSLATED BY THOMAS STANLEY,
1651
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