White Violets Flower
White violets flower
lilies on hill-slopes
narcissus nodding to rain-showers
and the queen of lovers' hopes
the sweet persuasive rose,
Zenophile, more fair than those:
o hills o fields your laughter rings
falsely through the flowered spring
for she outshines your garlanding.
- Meleager (translated by Peter Whigham)
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