Samuel Bishop (1731-1795). Fati Valet Hora Benigni. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

Fati Valet Hora Benigni

By Samuel Bishop (1731–1795)


IN myriad swarms, each summer sun
An insect nation shows;
Whose being, since he rose begun,
And e’er he sets will close.

Brief is their date, confin’d their powers,	5
The fluttering of a day;—
Yet life’s worth living, e’en for hours,
When all those hours—are play.