Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: I. About Children | | On the Picture of an Infant | | Leonidas of Alexandria |
| | From the Greek by Samuel Rogers
Playing near a Precipice
WHILE on the cliff with calm delight she kneels, | |
| And the blue vales a thousand joys recall, | |
| See, to the last, last verge her infant steals! | |
| O, fly—yet stir not, speak not, lest it fall.— | |
| Far better taught, she lays her bosom bare, | 5 |
| And the fond boy springs back to nestle there. | | | | |
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