The Crowne of All Homers Workes/The Pine

by Homer

 

The Pine.

ny Tree else, beares better Fruit then Thee,
That Idas Tops sustaine; where euery Tree
Beares vp in aire, such perspirable Heights,
And in which, Caues, and sinuous Receipts
Creepe, in such great abundance. For, about
Thy rootes (that euer, all thy Fruites put out
As nourisht by them, equall with thy Fruites)
Poure Mars his Iron-Mines their accust pursuites.
So that when any Earth-encroching Man
Of all the Martiall Broode Cebrenian;
Plead neede of Iron; They are certaine still,
About thy Rootes, to satiate euery Will.