10.08.2014, 13:17
SYRINX
LEAVE me to wither here by this dark pool,
Where the winds sigh amid the shuddering reeds,
And slimy things creep through the water-weeds,
And snakes glide out from coverts dim and cool.
Leave me, O Pan ; thou hast been made the fool
Of thy hot love; go where thy white flock feeds,
And pipe thy ditties in the dewy meads.
And watch the silly sheep that own thy rule.
Get hence; I am become a loveless thing;
No charms of mine shall ever tempt thee more ;
No more in valleys green and echoing
Shalt thou surprise and fright me, as of yore ;
Go, clash thy hoofs, and make the woodlands ring.
But let me wither here on this dark shore.
LEAVE me to wither here by this dark pool,
Where the winds sigh amid the shuddering reeds,
And slimy things creep through the water-weeds,
And snakes glide out from coverts dim and cool.
Leave me, O Pan ; thou hast been made the fool
Of thy hot love; go where thy white flock feeds,
And pipe thy ditties in the dewy meads.
And watch the silly sheep that own thy rule.
Get hence; I am become a loveless thing;
No charms of mine shall ever tempt thee more ;
No more in valleys green and echoing
Shalt thou surprise and fright me, as of yore ;
Go, clash thy hoofs, and make the woodlands ring.
But let me wither here on this dark shore.