Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Makes of this tool a club for doughty hand.
- This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage,
- Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;
- I from the dried oak hewn and fashioned with rustical hatchet
- Guarding them year by year while more are they evermore thriving.
- For here be owners twain who greet and worship my Godship,