A FAIR EUBOEAN SHORE
by: Sophocles
- HERE stretcheth by the sea
- A fair Euban 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 Euban Shore' is reprinted from Greek
Poets in English Verse. Ed. William Hyde Appleton. Cambridge:
The Riverside Press, 1893. |
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