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Daphne is running running through the grass	A
The long stalks whip her ankles as she goes	B
I saw the nymph the god I saw them pass	A
And how a mounting flush of tender rose	B
Invaded the white bosom of the lass	A
And reached her shoulders conquering their snows	B
He wasted all his breath imploring still	C
They passed behind the shadow of the hill	C
	-
The mad course goes across the silent plain	D
Their flying footsteps make a path of sound	E
Through all the sleeping country Now with pain	D
She runs across a stretch of stony ground	E
That wounds her soft palmed feet and now again	F
She hastens through a wood where flowers abound	E
Which staunch her cuts with balsam where she treads	G
And for her healing give their trodden heads	G
	-
Her sisters from their coverts unbetrayed	E
Look out in fright and see the two go by	H
Each unrelenting and reflect dismayed	E
How fear and anguish glisten in her eye	H
By them unhelped goes on the fleeting maid	E
Whose breath is coming short in agony	I
Hard at her heels pursues the golden boy	J
She flies in fear of him she flies from joy	J
	-
His arrows scattered on the countryside	E
His shining bow deserted he pursues	K
Through hindering woodlands over meadows wide	E
And now no longer as he runs he sues	K
But breathing deep and set and eager eyed	E
His flashing feet disperse the morning dews	K
His hands most roughly put the boughs away	L
That cross and cling and join and make delay	L
	-
Across small shining brooks and rills they leap	M
And now she fords the waters of a stream	N
Her hot knees plunge into the hollows deep	M
And cool where ancient trout in quiet dream	N
The silver minnows wakened from their sleep	M
In sunny shallows round her ankles gleam	N
She scrambles up the grassy bank and on	O
Though courage and quick breath are nearly done	P
	-
Now in the dusky spinneys round the field	E
The fauns set up a joyous mimicry	I
Pursuing of light nymphs who lightly yield	E
Or startle the young dryad from her tree	I
And shout with joy to see her limbs revealed	E
And give her grace and bid her swiftly flee	I
The hunt is up pursuer and pursued	E
Run double twist evade turn grasp elude	E
	-
The woodlands are alive with chase and cry	H
Escape and triumph Still the nymph in vain	D
With heaving breast in lovely agony	I
And wide and shining eyes that show her pain	D
Leads on the god and now she knows him nigh	H
And sees before her the unsheltered plain	D
His hot hand touches her white side and she	I
Thrusts up her hands and turns into a tree	I
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There is an end of dance and mocking tune	Q
Of laughter and bright love among the leaves	R
The sky is overcast the afternoon	Q
Is dull and heavy for a god who grieves	R
The woods are quiet and the oak tree soon	Q
The ruffled dryad in her trunk receives	R
Cold grow the sunburnt bodies and the white	E
The nymphs and fauns will lie alone to night	E

Edward Shanks

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