PRIAPUSKeeper-of-Orchards
I saw the first pearAs it fell.The honey-seeking, golden-banded,The yellow swarmWas not more fleet than I,(Spare us from loveliness!)And I fell prostrate,Crying,Thou hast flayed us with thy blossoms;Spare us the beautyOf fruit-trees!The honey-seekingPaused not,The air thundered their song,And I alone was prostrate.O rough-hewnGod of the orchard,I bring thee an offering;Do thou, alone unbeautiful(Son of the god),Spare us from loveliness.The fallen hazel-nuts,Stripped late of their green sheaths,The grapes, red-purple,Their berriesDripping with wine,Pomegranates already broken,And shrunken fig,And quinces untouched,I bring thee as offering.H. D.
I saw the first pearAs it fell.The honey-seeking, golden-banded,The yellow swarmWas not more fleet than I,(Spare us from loveliness!)And I fell prostrate,Crying,Thou hast flayed us with thy blossoms;Spare us the beautyOf fruit-trees!The honey-seekingPaused not,The air thundered their song,And I alone was prostrate.O rough-hewnGod of the orchard,I bring thee an offering;Do thou, alone unbeautiful(Son of the god),Spare us from loveliness.The fallen hazel-nuts,Stripped late of their green sheaths,The grapes, red-purple,Their berriesDripping with wine,Pomegranates already broken,And shrunken fig,And quinces untouched,I bring thee as offering.H. D.
I saw the first pearAs it fell.The honey-seeking, golden-banded,The yellow swarmWas not more fleet than I,(Spare us from loveliness!)And I fell prostrate,Crying,Thou hast flayed us with thy blossoms;Spare us the beautyOf fruit-trees!
I saw the first pear
As it fell.
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
Was not more fleet than I,
(Spare us from loveliness!)
And I fell prostrate,
Crying,
Thou hast flayed us with thy blossoms;
Spare us the beauty
Of fruit-trees!
The honey-seekingPaused not,The air thundered their song,And I alone was prostrate.
The honey-seeking
Paused not,
The air thundered their song,
And I alone was prostrate.
O rough-hewnGod of the orchard,I bring thee an offering;Do thou, alone unbeautiful(Son of the god),Spare us from loveliness.
O rough-hewn
God of the orchard,
I bring thee an offering;
Do thou, alone unbeautiful
(Son of the god),
Spare us from loveliness.
The fallen hazel-nuts,Stripped late of their green sheaths,The grapes, red-purple,Their berriesDripping with wine,Pomegranates already broken,And shrunken fig,And quinces untouched,I bring thee as offering.
The fallen hazel-nuts,
Stripped late of their green sheaths,
The grapes, red-purple,
Their berries
Dripping with wine,
Pomegranates already broken,
And shrunken fig,
And quinces untouched,
I bring thee as offering.
H. D.
H. D.