A FAIR EUBOEAN SHORE

by: Sophocles

      HERE stretcheth by the sea
      A fair Eubœan shore, and o'er it creeps
      The vine of Bacchus, each day's growth complete.
      In morning brightness all the land is green
      With tendrils fair and spreading. Noontide comes,
      And then the unripe cluster forms apace:
      The day declines, and purple grow the grapes;
      At eve the whole bright vintage is brought in,
      And the mixed wine poured out.

This English translation, by E.H. Plumptre, of 'A Fair Eubœan Shore' is reprinted from Greek Poets in English Verse. Ed. William Hyde Appleton. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1893.

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