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 breast
With such a swarm of loves possessed!
Minimus.

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

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