Port Folio, V-149, May 18, 1805, Phila.
FROM THE GERMAN OF LESSING.
Ah! why am I so transient, ask'd of Jupiter, Beauty?
Only the transient is fair, smiling answer'd the God!
Love, and Youth, and the Spring, and the Flow'rs, and the Dew, they all heard it;
Slowly they turn'd away, weeping from Jupiter's throne!
Port Folio, I-40, Jan. 25, 1806, Phila.
THE WOODEN LEG. [α].
An Helvetick Tale.
From the German of Solomon Gessner.
[Prose translation.]
Polyanthos, I-192, Feb., 1806, Boston.
[S. Gessner, Das hölzerne Bein.
W. Hooper, New Idylles, p. 78.]