Verses for Bachygraig Wood

Introduction by Hester Thrale

It is having a good Assurance to write Verses of my own out just by Mr Johnson’s; but they are only an Epigram translated from one of Salmasius and called de luco amœno.—I was thinking they would do well to write on a Pillar in my own Wood at Bachygraig.

So thick the Shade, so cool the Stream’
          Here safe might Mars & Venus play;
For neither tell-Tale Titan’s beam
          Nor Vulcan’s Fire could find their way.

Written by Hester Lynch Thrale.
Thraliana entry dated 7 March 1778. Hester Thrale's spelling, grammar and capitalisation, some of which may not conform to today's standards, are reproduced faithfully throughout.