Nature
Epigram V: The Rural Concert (Lang)
Translated by Andrew Lang (1880) · From Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose (Macmillan, 1889)
Ah, in the Muses’ name, wilt thou play me some sweet air on the double flute, and I will take up the harp, and touch a note, and the neatherd Daphnis will charm us the while, breathing music into his wax-bound pipe. And beside this rugged oak behind the cave will we stand, and rob the goat-foot Pan of his repose.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Theocritus. “Epigram V: The Rural Concert (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/173/.
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Theocritus. “Epigram V: The Rural Concert (Lang).” Translated by Andrew Lang. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/theocritus/173/.
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