Priapeia

Priaepia

by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers

  1. And, while its mother lows, the tender calf
  2. Before the temples of the Gods must bleed.
  3. Hence of such Godhead (traveller!), stand in awe;
  4. Best it befits thee off to keep thy hands.
  5. Thy cross is ready, shaped as artless yard;
  6. 'I'm willing 'faith' (thou say'st) but 'faith here comes