From the Amorous Shepherd to His Flock: a Parody of Lord Byron's "She walks in beauty"

An original parody on a classic poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron.

THEY graze in beauty on the land

of grassy glades and dewy dales,

and all that's best of dark and tanned

meets in their aspect and their tails;

thus mellowed to that tender hand

which Shepherd to gentle glen compels.

 

One fleece the more, one spot the less,

had half repaired the shearless grace

which wreathes in every woolen tress

or darkly tightens o'er their face,

where mouths serenely sweet express

how pure, how dear their grazing-place.

 

And on that rump and o'er that round

so strong, so firm, yet elegant,

the baas that win, the hooves that bound,

but tell of days in meadows spent--

a flock at peace with all around,

a drove whose milk is innocent!