Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Poems of Home: I. About ChildrenOn the Picture of an Infant
Leonidas of AlexandriaFrom the Greek by Samuel Rogers
Playing near a Precipice
Playing near a Precipice
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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,
And the fond boy springs back to nestle there.