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TO POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS	A
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Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now	B
Those shepherd singers at whose rival strains	A
The heifer wondering forgot to graze	A
The lynx stood awe struck and the flowing streams	A
Unwonted loiterers stayed their course to hear	C
How Damon and Alphesiboeus sang	D
Their pastoral ditties will I tell the tale	E
Thou whether broad Timavus' rocky banks	A
Thou now art passing or dost skirt the shore	F
Of the Illyrian main will ever dawn	G
That day when I thy deeds may celebrate	H
Ever that day when through the whole wide world	I
I may renown thy verse that verse alone	J
Of Sophoclean buskin worthy found	K
With thee began to thee shall end the strain	L
Take thou these songs that owe their birth to thee	M
And deign around thy temples to let creep	N
This ivy chaplet 'twixt the conquering bays	A
Scarce had night's chilly shade forsook the sky	O
What time to nibbling sheep the dewy grass	A
Tastes sweetest when on his smooth shepherd staff	P
Of olive leaning Damon thus began	Q
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Damon	R
'Rise Lucifer and heralding the light	S
Bring in the genial day while I make moan	J
Fooled by vain passion for a faithless bride	T
For Nysa and with this my dying breath	U
Call on the gods though little it bestead	T
The gods who heard her vows and heeded not	T
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Ever hath Maenalus his murmuring groves	A
And whispering pines and ever hears the songs	A
Of love lorn shepherds and of Pan who first	T
Brooked not the tuneful reed should idle lie	O
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Nysa to Mopsus given what may not then	V
We lovers look for soon shall we see mate	T
Griffins with mares and in the coming age	W
Shy deer and hounds together come to drink	X
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Now Mopsus cut new torches for they bring	Y
Your bride along now bridegroom scatter nuts	A
Forsaking Oeta mounts the evening star	Z
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
O worthy of thy mate while all men else	A
Thou scornest and with loathing dost behold	T
My shepherd's pipe my goats my shaggy brow	B
And untrimmed beard nor deem'st that any god	T
For mortal doings hath regard or care	A2
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Once with your mother in our orchard garth	B2
A little maid I saw you I your guide	T
Plucking the dewy apples My twelfth year	C2
I scarce had entered and could barely reach	D2
The brittle boughs I looked and I was lost	T
A sudden frenzy swept my wits away	E2
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Now know I what Love is 'mid savage rocks	A
Tmaros or Rhodope brought forth the boy	F2
Or Garamantes in earth's utmost bounds	A
No kin of ours nor of our blood begot	T
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Fierce Love it was once steeled a mother's heart	T
With her own offspring's blood her hands to imbrue	C2
Mother thou too wert cruel say wert thou	B
More cruel mother or more ruthless he	M
Ruthless the boy thou mother cruel too	T
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Now let the wolf turn tail and fly the sheep	N
Tough oaks bear golden apples alder trees	A
Bloom with narcissus flower the tamarisk	G2
Sweat with rich amber and the screech owl vie	O
In singing with the swan let Tityrus	A
Be Orpheus Orpheus in the forest glade	T
Arion 'mid his dolphins on the deep	N
'Begin my flute with me Maenalian lays	A
Yea be the whole earth to mid ocean turned	T
Farewell ye woodlands I from the tall peak	H2
Of yon aerial rock will headlong plunge	I2
Into the billows this my latest gift	T
From dying lips bequeathed thee see thou keep	N
Cease now my flute now cease Maenalian lays '	-
Thus Damon but do ye Pierian Maids	A
We cannot all do all things tell me how	B
Alphesiboeus to his strain replied	T
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Alphesiboeus	A
'Bring water and with soft wool fillet bind	T
These altars round about and burn thereon	G
Rich vervain and male frankincense that I	O
May strive with magic spells to turn astray	C2
My lover's saner senses whereunto	T
There lacketh nothing save the power of song	J2
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
Songs can the very moon draw down from heaven	R
Circe with singing changed from human form	L2
The comrades of Ulysses and by song	J2
Is the cold meadow snake asunder burst	T
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
These triple threads of threefold colour first	T
I twine about thee and three times withal	O
Around these altars do thine image bear	C2
Uneven numbers are the god's delight	T
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
Now Amaryllis ply in triple knots	A
The threefold colours ply them fast and say	C2
This is the chain of Venus that I ply	O
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
As by the kindling of the self same fire	C2
Harder this clay this wax the softer grows	A
So by my love may Daphnis sprinkle meal	O
And with bitumen burn the brittle bays	A
Me Daphnis with his cruelty doth burn	M2
I to melt cruel Daphnis burn this bay	C2
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
As when some heifer seeking for her steer	C2
Through woodland and deep grove sinks wearied out	T
On the green sedge beside a stream love lorn	M2
Nor marks the gathering night that calls her home	K2
As pines that heifer with such love as hers	A
May Daphnis pine and I not care to heal	O
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
These relics once dear pledges of himself	N2
The traitor left me which O earth to thee	M
Here on this very threshold I commit	T
Pledges that bind him to redeem the debt	T
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
These herbs of bane to me did Moeris give	O2
In Pontus culled where baneful herbs abound	T
With these full oft have I seen Moeris change	P2
To a wolf's form and hide him in the woods	A
Oft summon spirits from the tomb's recess	A
And to new fields transport the standing corn	M2
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
Take ashes Amaryllis fetch them forth	Q2
And o'er your head into the running brook	R2
Fling them nor look behind with these will	O
Upon the heart of Daphnis make essay	C2
Nothing for gods nothing for songs cares he	M
'Draw from the town my songs draw Daphnis home	K2
Look look I the very embers of themselves	A
Have caught the altar with a flickering flame	S2
While I delay to fetch them may the sign	M2
Prove lucky something it must mean for sure	C2
And Hylax on the threshold 'gins to bark	T2
May we believe it or are lovers still	O
By their own fancies fooled	T
Give o'er my songs	A
Daphnis is coming from the town give o'er '	-

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