And four times favored wind that bears the youth,

O would I were a Dolphin! so, in truth,

High on my shoulders ferried he should come

To Rhodes, sweet haunt of boys, his island-home.”

From the Greek Anthology, ii. 402.

Epigram

Also from the Greek Anthology:—

“O say, and again repeat, fair, fair—and still I will say it—

How fair, my friend, and good to see, thou art;