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

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For The Nova Scotia Magazine.

Translation of the thirty-third Ode of Anacreon.

You, dear Swallow once a year,In Summer's genial heat appear;Once a curious mansion build,Once with little swallows filled:—But love, within my hopeless breast,Hath built a never falling nest.Some young desires in plumage bright,Half of some the shells detain;Some within the egg remain.The chirping brood with careless noise,Stun my ears and kill my joys.The elder loves, the younger feed:These again with wondrous speed,Other generations breed.Ah! what can ease this wretched breastWith such a swarm of loves possessed!Minimus.

(The Nova Scotia Magazine, March, 1790, p. 230.)

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