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PAN AND DAPHNIS by GLAUCUS OF NICOPOLIS

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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