1 MAY 1936, Page 13

Two Epigrams

(i) A Garden. Speaks

[After Arabius]

WATERS and orchards are mintrellis of apple and vine

Ordered, and bordered below the sea caresses my wall ; Pler.ty of all that I lack pours from the farm at my back,

Tribute of fish at my feet from the smack unlading her haul. Ye that of-me are possest nightly securely may rest Lulled, with the song-weary bird in his nest, by the ferryman's

(ii) On the Cnidian Venus

[App. Planud. : Author unknown] " WRETEII!",-.-by her statue in Cnidos soliloquised Aphrodite- " When did Praxiteles catch me without a chemise, or a