Page:Poems and lyrics of the joy of earth.djvu/98

Rh A bird said that, in the notes of birds, and the speech
 * Of men, it seemed: and another renewed: He moves

To learn and not to pursue, he gathers to teach;
 * He feeds his young as do we, and as we love loves.

No fears have I of a man who goes with his head
 * To earth, chance looking aloft at us, kind of hand:

I feel to him as to earth of whom we are fed;
 * I pipe him much for his good could he understand.

Melampus touched at his ears, laid finger on wrist:
 * He was not dreaming, he sensibly felt and heard.

Above, through leaves, where the tree-twigs thick intertwist,
 * He spied the birds and the bill of the speaking bird.

His cushion mosses in shades of various green,
 * The lumped, the antlered, he pressed, while the sunny snake

Slipped under: draughts he had drunk of clear Hippocrene,
 * It seemed, and sat with a gift of the Gods awake.