Page:New poems and variant readings, Stevenson, 1918.djvu/157

Rh Strip god Priapus of each attribute

Here finds he scarce a pedestal to foot.

The gathered harvest scarcely brims a spoon;

And all my vintage drips in a cocoon.

Generous are you, but I more generous still:

Take back your farm and stand me half a gill!

AD QUINTILIANUM

DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS

Martial owns a garden, famed to please,

Beyond the glades of the Hesperides;

Along Janiculum lies the chosen block

Where the cool grottos trench the hanging rock.

The moderate summit, something plain and bare,

Tastes overhead of a serener air;