Acadian Magazines/The Thirty-Third Ode of Anacreon (Dole)

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Dear Swallow! you, a friendly comer,   Returning every year,Build your nest here in the Summer,   In Winter disappear.For Nile or Memphis far you leave:   But love within my heartHis downy nest doth ever weave,   And never will depart. One passing is just getting wings,   One hatching, one on egg:A clamorous cry unceasing springs   From gaping mouths that beg.The older loves quick zeal display   The younger brood to feed:These, brought up, in their turn straightway   Another nestful breed.What remedy therefore have I?   Since every effort provesI have not power, howe'er I try.   To drive away such loves.W. P. D.

(From Stewart's Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 3, Oct., 1869, p. 252.)

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