Mythology & Folklore

Pan, Echo, and the Satyr

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792–1822

Translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley · From Complete Poetical Works, Oxford ed. Hutchinson (1914)

Mythology & Folklore

Pan loved his neighbour Echo—but that child
Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;
The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild
The bright nymph Lyda,—and so three went weeping.
As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr,
The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them.—
And thus to each—which was a woful matter—
To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them;
For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover,
Each, loving, so was hated.—Ye that love not
Be warned—in thought turn this example over,
That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.

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Translated by Shelley from the Greek of Moschus.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Pan, Echo, and the Satyr.” Translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/229/.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Pan, Echo, and the Satyr.” Translated by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/229/.

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