That I, in noonday sleep, may steal from love,
Reclined beneath this dark o’erspreading plane.
Translation of Sir C. A. Elton.
THE GRASSHOPPER.
FROM THE GREEK OF ANACREON, 600 B. C.
Happy insect, what can be
In happiness compared to thee?
Fed with nourishment divine,
The dewy morning’s gentle wine!
Nature waits upon thee still,