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First Line: Casis, where nymphs, and where the gods resort
Last Line: Charm'd with thy murm'ring noise, she falls asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus
Subject(s): Fountains


CASIS, where Nymphs, and where the Gods resort,
Thou art a friend to all their am'rous sport;
Often does Pan from his Lycaeus run,
In thy cool shades to 'scape the mid-day's Sun;

With music he thy neighb'ring hills does fill,
On his sweet Syrinx, when he shows his skill;
To which the Naides hand in hand advance,
And in just measures tread their graceful dance:

By thee the goats delight, and browsing stray,
Whilst on the rocks the kids do skip and play;
Hither Diana, chasing deer, does hie,
For on thy banks her game will choose to die.

Here tir'd and hot, she sits and takes the air,
Here bathes her limbs, and combs and dries her hair:
The Muses in their songs thy praise express;
Dryas by thee begins to trick and dress.

Oft to thy streams Calliope retires,
And all the beauties of thy spring admires;
In whose close walks, while she from heat does keep,
Charm'd with thy murm'ring noise, she falls asleep.





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