Love
Idyll VI (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Love
Pan loved his neighbour Echo; Echo loved
A gamesome Satyr; he, by her unmoved,
Loved only Lyde; thus through Echo, Pan,
Lyde, and Satyr, Love his circle ran.
Thus all, while their true lovers’ hearts they grieved,
Were scorned in turn, and what they gave received.
O all Love’s scorners, learn this lesson true;
Be kind to Love, that he be kind to you.
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Moschus. “Idyll VI (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/15/.
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Moschus. “Idyll VI (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/15/.
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