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AGNES AND ARIES - ZaunköniG - 01.01.2011
AGNES AND ARIES
Fresh from the page of Virgil's Pollio
I look'd abroad upon the wintry land,
And there I saw two dingy wethers stand
Beside a patch of soil'd and thawing snow.
With Maro's vision burning on mine eyes,
Alas ! I said, how meagre is the view !
No wondrous ram with his spontaneous dyes,
No bright Amomum with its eastern hue !
But winter soon will pass, nor shall we need
Assyrian flowers to deck our May and June ;
No sheep have we of that transcendent stock ;
But Agnes, merriest of our household flock,
Will take a change of shawls into the mead,
And shift at will from saffron to maroon.