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Read Ebook: De Carmine Pastorali Prefixed to Thomas Creech's translation of the Idylliums of Theocritus (1684) by Rapin Ren Congleton J E James Edmund Author Of Introduction Etc Creech Thomas Translator
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To look on all mens lives as in a Glass, And take from those Examples for our Own,
E'en in the midst and fury of the Joys, Some thing that's better riseth, and destroys.
Tell Goddess, you can tell.
A Kid belongs to thee, and Kids are good,
This Pail of Milk, these Cakes every year Expect; a little Garden is thy care: Thou'rt Marble now, but if more Land I hold, If my Flock thrive, thou shalt be made of Gold,
Pines murmurings, Goatherd, are a pleasing sound,
The glossy Plums I'le bring, and juicy Pear, Such as were once delightful to my Dear: I'le crop the Laurel, and the Myrtle tree, Confus'dly set, because their Sweets agree.
--It is not safe to drive too nigh, The Bank may fail, the Ram is hardly dry:
Dear Nymph, dear as my Goats, you dy'd.
And she may look on me, she may be won, She may be kind, she is not perfect Stone,
--I see that I must die:
Ye Wolves, and Pards, and Mountain Bores adieu, The Herdsmen now must walk no more with You.
Nor have I any mind to be reliev'd:
I'le dy, yet tell my Love e'en whilst I dy:
He lov'd, but could not hope for Love again.
His was no common flame, nor could he move In the old Arts, and beaten paths of Love, No Flowers nor Fruits sent to oblige the Fair, His was all Rage, and Madness:
Did not You Streams, and Hazels, hear the Nymphs?
Thee the Pines, and every Vale, The Fountains, Hills, and every shrub did call:
Ye Vales, and Streams, a race Divine:
His words are soft, and each expression sweet.
Rough Storms to Trees, to Birds the treacherous Snare, Are frightful Evils; Springes to the Hare, Soft Virgins Love to Man, &c.
ERRATA.
Ella M. Hymans
Curator of Rare Books, General Library, University of Michigan
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