Cupid's Fair-Weather Booke / Including an Almanack for Any Two Years (True Love Ought to Last That Long)

by John Cecil Clay; Oliver Herford

Scorpio

The Scorpion

THE SCORPION

’Tis said the Scorpion, when hemmed in by Fire,

Mocking the flames, will do herself to death.

So Summer dying smiles upon her pyre

Of maples fanned to flame by Autumn’s breath.