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TO A TRAVELLER, by                    
First Line: After many a dusty mile
Last Line: It is pan that counsels you
Variant Title(s): "wanderer, Linger Here Awhile;
Subject(s): Greece;travel;wandering & Wanderers;; Greeks;journeys;trips


AFTER many a dusty mile,
Wanderer, linger here awhile;
Stretch your limbs in dewy grass;
Through these pines a wind shall pass
That shall cool you with its wing;
Grasshoppers shall shout and sing;
While the shepherd on the hill,
Near a fountain warbling still,
Modulates, when noon is mute,
Summer songs along his flute;
Underneath a spreading tree,
None so easy-limbed as he,
Sheltered from the dog-star's heat.

Rest; and then, on freshened feet,
You shall pass the forest through.
It is Pan that counsels you.





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