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THE SAME.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

(As revised by Mr. C.D. Locock.)

 

Melodious Arethusa, o’er my verse

Shed thou once more the spirit of thy stream:

 

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Who denies verse to Gallus? So, when thou

Glidest beneath the green and purple gleam

Of Syracusan waters, mayest thou flow _5

Unmingled with the bitter Dorian dew!

Begin, and whilst the goats are browsing now

The soft leaves, in our song let us pursue

The melancholy loves of Gallus. List!

We sing not to the deaf: the wild woods knew _10

His sufferings, and their echoes answer...

Young Naiades, in what far woodlands wild

Wandered ye, when unworthy love possessed

Our Gallus? Nor where Pindus is up-piled,

Nor where Parnassus’ sacred mount, nor where _15

Aonian Aganippe spreads its...

 

(Three lines missing.)

 

The laurels and the myrtle-copses dim,

The pine-encircled mountain, Maenalus,

The cold crags of Lycaeus weep for him.

 

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‘What madness is this, Gallus? thy heart’s care, _20

Lycoris, mid rude camps and Alpine snow,

With willing step pursues another there.’

 

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And Sylvan, crowned with rustic coronals,

Came shaking in his speed the budding wands

And heavy lilies which he bore: we knew _25

Pan the Arcadian with....

...and said,

‘Wilt thou not ever cease? Love cares not.

The meadows with fresh streams, the bees with thyme,

The goats with the green leaves of budding spring _30

Are saturated not—nor Love with tears.’

 

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FROM VERGIL’S FOURTH GEORGIC.

 

[VERSES 360 ET SEQ.]

 

[Published by Locock, “Examination”, etc., 1903.]

 

And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains

Stood, and received him in its mighty portal

And led him through the deep’s untrampled fountains

 

He went in wonder through the path immortal

Of his great Mother and her humid reign _5

And groves profaned not by the step of mortal

 

Which sounded as he passed, and lakes which rain

Replenished not girt round by marble caves

‘Wildered by the watery motion of the main

 

Half ‘wildered he beheld the bursting waves _10

Of every stream beneath the mighty earth

Phasis and Lycus which the ... sand paves,

 

[And] The chasm where old Enipeus has its birth

And father Tyber and Anienas[?] glow

And whence Caicus, Mysian stream, comes forth _15

 

And rock-resounding Hypanis, and thou

Eridanus who bearest like empire’s sign

Two golden horns upon thy taurine brow

 

Thou than whom none of the streams divine

Through garden-fields and meads with fiercer power, _20

Burst in their tumult on the purple brine

 

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