The Idylliums of Theocritus Translated from the Greek. With notes critical and explanatory. By Francis Fawkes |
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I. Offerings to the Muses and Apollo.
This wild thyme, and these roses, moist with dews,Are sacred to the Heliconian Muse;
The bay, Apollo, with dark leaves is thine;
Thus art thou honour'd at the Delphic shrine;
And there to thee this shagg'd he-goat I vow,
That loves to crop the pine-tree's pendent bough.
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