Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;
  2. I from the dried oak hewn and fashioned with rustical hatchet
  3. Guarding them year by year while more are they evermore thriving.
  4. For here be owners twain who greet and worship my Godship,