AUSONIUS.

Vane, quid affectas faciem mihi ponere, pictor,
 Ignotamque oculis solicitare manu?
Aeris et venti sum filia, mater inanis
 Indicii, vocemque sine mente gero.
Auribus in vestris habito penetrabilis echo;
 Si mihi vis similem pingere, pinge sonos.

 IN ENGLISH.

Vain painter, why dost strive my face to draw
With busy hands? a goddesse eyes nere saw.
Daughter of air and wind, I do rejoyce
In empty shouts; (without a mind) a voice.
Within your ears shrill echo I rebound,
And, if you'l paint me like, then paint a sound.