On hastened time, that brings all things to end.

Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend:
Then to my hand-maid I revealed my mind;
"Some remedy for my sore sickness find;
I pine for, dote upon the Myndian youth,
Am altogether his in very sooth;

At Timagetus' school watch, bring him me,
For there he visits—there he loves to be.
And when you see him from the rest apart,
Then nod and softly whisper him, ‘sweetheart!
Simætha calls you'-guide him here, my friend."

Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend :
She went and found the remedy I sought,
And to my house the blooming Delphis brought.
But when I saw him o'er my threshold-sill
Pass with light foot, I sudden grew more chill
Than wintry snow; and from my forehead burst
Sweat like the dew the melting South hath nurst;
I could not utter-e'en the murmur fine

That sleeping infants to their mothers whine;
Senseless I stiffened in my strange affright,

Like a wax-doll, the girl-child's dear delight.

Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend:

The heartless minion first on me did bend

His eager eyes, then sitting on the bed

He turned them on the ground, and softly said :-
"In calling me before I came self-moved,
Thou hast as much outpast me, my beloved,
As I did lately with swift foot out-pace
The beautiful Philinus in the race."-

(Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend :) "For, by sweet Eros! with a second friend, Or with a third, I should have come to-night, Bringing sweet apples, crowned with poplar white, Careful the wreath with purple stripes to blend:"

"Had

(Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend :) you received me. well; for me, 'mid all, The handsome, active bachelor they call; A kiss from those rich lips, that sweetly pout, Had been enough; but had you shut me out, And your barred doors had interposed delay, Axes and torches then had forced a way."

(Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend :)

"To Cypris first in gratitude I bend,

Thou, next to her, hast snatched me from the fire,

In calling me half burnt with fierce desire;

For Eros oft a fiercer flame awakes

Than those Sicilian fires Hephæstus makes."

(Whence grew my love, divinest Moon! attend :) "He from her bed the virgin oft doth send, Stung by his furies; and the new-made bride Scares from the warm couch and her husband's side."

These words he spoke; but I with credulous mind, Held his dear hand, and on the bed reclined : Our bodies did by touching warmer grow, And on our cheeks there came a hotter glow : Sweetly we whispered; and, in short, dear Moon! By Eros fired, we gained Cythera's boon. Nor any blame on me could Delphis lay, Nor haply I on him 'till yesterday.

I only learned to-day his yester ill:

While yet up-prancing the high eastern hill,
Her fiery-footed steeds from ocean's dew
With rosy-armed Aurora upward flew,

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There came the mother of the festive pair,

Sweet-voiced Philista and Melixo fair,

But whom I know not; yet enamoured so,
That from the banquet suddenly he fled,
To hang his lady's house with flowers, he said."
My old friend told me this, and told me truth:
For twice or thrice a day once came my youth,
And often left his Dorian pyx with me;
This the twelfth day since him I last did see.
Has he forgot me for another love?

With philtres will I try his soul to move;
But if he still will grieve, betray me, mock,

He shall, by fate! the door of Hades knock.
That chest has drugs shall make him feel my rage;
The art I learned from an Assyrian sage.

Thy steeds to ocean now, bright Queen, direct;
What I have sworn to do I will effect.

Farewell, clear Moon! and skyey cressets bright,
That follow the soft-gliding wheels of Night.

IDYL III.

AMYRILLIS.

ARGUMENT.

A goatherd, enamoured of Amaryllis, having given his flock in charge to Tityrus, goes to her cave, and, after complaining of her changed disposition towards him, attempts to revive her former attention to his suit with gifts, and entreaties, and finally with threats of self-destruction. At last, in the hope of attracting her notice, he sings a song recalling the memory of some happy mortals, whom Venus had favoured. Finding her inflexible, he ceases despondingly. The scene is changed from the place where his flock is at pasture, to the cavern. home of Amaryllis.