Ausonius Quote

What colour are they now, thy quiet waters?
The evening star has brought the evening light,
And filled the river with the green hillside;
The hill-tops waver in the rippling water,
Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape
In thy clear crystal.


"Mosella", line 192; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 31.


What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, And filled the river with the green hillside; The...

What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, And filled the river with the green hillside; The...

What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, And filled the river with the green hillside; The...

What colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, And filled the river with the green hillside; The...