Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Montepulciano | | Montepulciano Wine | | Francesco Redi (1626–1697) |
| | Translated by Leigh Hunt
* * * * * HEARKEN, all earth! | |
| We, Bacchus, in the might of our great mirth, | |
| To all who reverence us, and are right thinkers;— | |
| Hear, all ye drinkers! | |
| Give ear, and give faith, to our edict divine,— | 5 |
| Moltepulciano ’s the King of all Wine! | |
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| At these glad sounds, | |
| The Nymphs, in giddy rounds, | |
| Shaking their ivy diadems and grapes, | |
| Echoed the triumph in a thousand shapes. | 10 |
| The Satyrs would have joined them; but alas! | |
| They could n’t; for they lay about the grass, | |
| As drunk as apes. | | | | |
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