The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus with the Elegies of Tyrtaeus, Translated from the Greek into English Verse. To which are Added, Dissertations and Notes. By the Rev. Richard Polwhele |
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III. To DAPHNIS sleeping.
While, Daphnis, on the leaf-strown Ground, you steepYour weary Body in the Dews of Sleep;
And on the green Hill-top your Snares are laid—
With Pan, who hunts where erst your Footsteps stray'd,
The rude Priapus hastens to your Cave—
See on his Brows the saffron Ivy wave!
But fly them, tho' the sultry Noon-day glows,
Fly the wild Revellers, and forego Repose!
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