The Idylliums of Theocritus Translated from the Greek. With notes critical and explanatory. By Francis Fawkes |
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II. An offering to Pan.
Daphnis the fair, who with bucolic song,And pastoral pipe could charm the listening throng,
To Pan presents these emblems of his art,
A fawn's soft skin, a crook, and pointed dart,
Three rural pipes, adapted to his lip,
And for his homely food a leathern scrip.
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