That hast this small field after me,
Let the yearly rites be paid
To her little slender shade;
So shall no disease or jar,
Hurt thy house, or chill thy Lar;
But this tomb be here alone
The only melancholy stone.”
Leigh Hunt.
[383] Philosopher of Sinope. The well-known Cynic philosopher Diogenes, born at Sinope on the Black Sea, 404. B.C.
[384] Faun (from faveo—to be favorable). A god of the fields and woods, akin to the Greek woodland deity, Pan.