II.

Not the shell-fish, pampering food!

Of Lucrine's azure lake the boast;

Nor luscious product of the eastern flood,

Driven by the stormy winds upon our coast;

Nor costly birds, that hither rove

Natives of Ionian grove,

Can with more poignant zest his senses meet

Than the love-kneaded cates of this unpurchas'd treat.

Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace · 第 219 / 228 题