The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules / Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

by Hesiod

With sinew of the bull, and sheltering throw

Athwart thy shoulders when the rains impend;

And let [106]a well-wrought cap thy head defend,

And screen thine ears, while drenching showers descend.

Bleak is the morn, when blows the north from high;

Oft when the dawnlight paints the starry sky,

A misty cloud suspended hovers o’er

Heaven’s blessed earth with fertilizing store

Drain’d from the living streams: aloft in air

The whirling winds the buoyant vapour bear,