Nature
Epigram I
Translated by C. S. Calverley (1869) · From Epigrams and Epitaphs
Nature
Yours be yon dew-steep'd roses, yours be yon
Thick-clustering ivy, maids of Helicon:
Thine, Pythian Pæan, that dark-foliaged bay;
With such thy Delphian crags thy front array.
This horn'd and shaggy ram shall stain thy shrine,
Who crops e'en now the feathering turpentine.
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Theocritus. “Epigram I.” Translated by C. S. Calverley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/31/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram I.” Translated by C. S. Calverley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/31/.
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