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PAN AND DAPHNIS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, ye nymphs, and tell me right
Last Line: For I must hasten on.
Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology)


PAN.

Tell me, ye nymphs, and tell me right,
Has Daphnis passed this way?
Rested he here his kidlings white?

NYMPHS.

Yea, Pan the Piper, yea:
He passed, and on yon poplar's bark
He carved a line for thee to mark:
'To Malea come, O Pan, my Pan,
To Mount Psophidion;
Thither go I.'

PAN.

Ye Nymphs, good-bye,
For I must hasten on.





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