Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- O Sire, whose very counterpart thou seem'st
- And without hacking make it whole again,
- One linmed on tablet shall to thee be given
- Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.'
- The God to promise deigning wagged his yard,
- By way of nod divine, and did my bede.
- Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me,