Love
Idyll IX (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Love
Would that my father had taught me the craft of a keeper of sheep,
For so in the shade of the elm-tree, or under the rocks on the steep,
Piping on reeds I had sat, and had lulled my sorrow to sleep.
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Moschus. “Idyll IX (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/18/.
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Moschus. “Idyll IX (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moschus/18/.
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