These lines are imitated from an epigram of Evenus of Paras.
L. 1. _Fille de Pandion._ Pandion, son of and king of Athens, had two
daughters, Procne and Philomela. Procne was ultimately turned into a
swallow and Philomela into a nightingale. See Ovid, _Met._ vi. 412 ff.
L. 10. _A ton nid._ _Nid_ for _nichée_: 'Et portant à son bec son
modeste butin, De son _nid_ babillard revient calmer la faim.'--Delille,
_En._ xii (in LITTRÉ). In the same way 'nest,' in English, is used for
'brood.' Cf. Virgil, _Georg._ iv. 17, and La Font., _Fables_, X. vii.
17.