The Grasshopper

Happy insect, what can be

In happiness compared to thee?

Fed with nourishment divine,

The dewy morning’s gentle wine!

Nature waits upon thee still,

And thy verdant cup does fill;

‘Tis filled wherever thou dost tread,

Nature’s self’s thy Ganymede.

Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing,

Happier than the happiest king!

All the fields which thou dost see,

All the plants belong to thee;

All the summer hours produce,

Fertile made with early juice.

Man for thee does sow and plow,

Farmer he, and landlord thou!

Thou dost innocently enjoy;

Nor does thy luxury destroy.

The shepherd gladly heareth thee,

More harmonious than he.

Thee country hinds with gladness hear,

Prophet of the ripened year!

Thee Phoebus loves, and does inspire

Phoebus is himself thy sire.

To thee, of all things upon earth,

Life is no longer than thy mirth.

Happy insect! happy thou,

Dost neither age nor winter know;

But when thou’st drunk, and danced, and sung

Thy fill, the flowery leaves among,

(Voluptuous and wise withal,

Epicurean animal!)

Sated with thy summer feast,

Thou retir’st to endless rest.

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Poems in English 

• Locations and Times. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Lo! Victress on the Peaks. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Lessons. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Laws for Creations. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Last Invocation, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Kosmos. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Joy, Shipmate, Joy! by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Italian Music in Dakota. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Inscription. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Indications, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• In the New Garden in all the Parts. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• In Paths Untrodden. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• In Midnight Sleep. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• In Cabin’d Ships at Sea. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• I will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• I was Looking a Long While. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• I Thought I was not Alone. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• I Sit and Look Out. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• I Sing the Body Electric. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• I saw Old General at Bay. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

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