C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
On a Fowler: Isidorus (date undetermined)
By The Greek Anthology
Translation of William Cowper
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Eumelus gathered free though scanty fare.
No lordly patron’s hand he deign’d to kiss,
Nor luxury knew, save liberty, nor bliss.
Thrice thirty years he lived, and to his heirs
His reeds bequeathed, his bird-lime, and his snares.