Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Her milk-distended udders to the town:
- Out of my sheep-cotes ta'en the fatted lamb
- Sends home with silver right-hand heavily charged;
- And, while its mother lows, the tender calf
- Before the temples of the Gods must bleed.
- Hence of such Godhead (traveller!), stand in awe;
- Best it befits thee off to keep thy hands.
- Thy cross is ready, shaped as artless yard;