C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Author Unknown
A Group of Indian Epigrams: Full Many a Flower is Born to Blush Unseen
Translation of Charles Rockwell Lanman, editor
O
Did ever kiss; nor e’er did honey-drinker
Thy nectar sip. A rough bough hid thy petals.
Fled is thy beauty to the realm of change.