Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Fati Valet Hora Benigni

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,

The fluttering of a day;—

Yet life’s worth living, e’en for hours,

When all those hours—are play.