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From Idyl VII (Pictures From Theocritus - From Idyl I.)

He left us; we, the hour of parting come,

To Prasidamus' hospitable home,

Myself and Eucritus, together wend,

With young Amynticus, our blooming friend:

There, all delighted, through the summer day,

On beds of rushes, pillowed deep, we lay;

Around, the lentils, newly cut, were spread;

Dark elms and poplars whispered o'er our head;

A hallowed stream, to all the wood-nymphs dear,

Fresh from the rocky cavern murmured near;

Beneath the fruit-leaves' many-mantling shade,

The grasshoppers a coil incessant made;

From the wild thorny thickets, heard remote,

The wood-lark trilled his far-resounding note;

Loud sung the thrush, musician of the scene,

And soft and sweet was heard the dove's sad note between;

Then yellow bees, whose murmur soothed the ear,

Went idly flitting round the fountain clear.

Summer and Autumn seemed at once to meet,

Filling with redolence the blest retreat,

While the ripe pear came rolling to our feet.