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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=528327" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Countryman's Wooing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE MAIDEN.<br>How fell sage Helen? through a swain like thee.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Nay the true Helen's just now kissing me.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Satyr, ne'er boast: 'what's idler than a kiss?'<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Yet in such pleasant idling there is bliss.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>I'll wash my mouth: where go thy kisses then?<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Wash, and return it-to be kissed again.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Go kiss your oxen, and not unwed maids.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Ne'er boast; for beauty is a dream that fades.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Past grapes are grapes: dead roses keep their smell.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Come to yon olives: I have a tale to tell.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Not I: you fooled me with smooth words before.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Come to yon elms, and hear me pipe once more.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Pipe to yourself: your piping makes me cry.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>A maid, and flout the Paphian? Fie, oh fie!<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>She's naught to me, if Artemis' favour last.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Hush, ere she smite you and entrap you fast.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>And let her smite me, trap me as she will!<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Your Artemis shall be your saviour still?<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Unhand me! What, again? I'll tear your lip.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Can you, could damsel e'er, give Love the slip?<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>You are his bondslave, but not I by Pan!<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>I doubt he'll give thee to a worser man.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Many have wooed me, but I fancied none.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Till among many came the destined one.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Wedlock is woe. Dear lad, what can I do?<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Woe it is not, but joy and dancing too.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Wives dread their husbands: so I've heard it said.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Nay, they rule o'er them. What does woman dread?<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Then children-Eileithya's dart is keen.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>But the deliverer, Artemis, is your queen.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>And bearing children all our grace destroys.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Bear them and shine more lustrous in your boys.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Should I say yea, what dower awaits me then?<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Thine are my cattle, thine this glade and glen.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Swear not to wed, then leave me in my woe?<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Not I by Pan, though thou should'st bid me go.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>And shall a cot be mine, with farm and fold!<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Thy cot's half-built, fair wethers range this wold.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>What, what to my old father must I say?<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Soon as he hears my name he'll not say nay.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Speak it: by e'en a name we're oft beguiled.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>I'm Daphnis, Lycid's and Nomaea's child.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Well-born indeed: and not less so am I.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>I know-Menalcas' daughter may look high.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>That grove, where stands your sheepfold, shew me please.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Nay look, how green, how tall my cypress-trees.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Graze, goats: I go to learn the herdsman's trade.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Feed, bulls: I shew my copses to my maid.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Satyr, what mean you? You presume o'ermuch.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>This waist is round, and pleasant to the touch.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>By Pan, I'm like to swoon! Unhand me pray!<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Why be so timorous? Pretty coward, stay.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>This bank is wet: you've soiled my pretty gown.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>See, a soft fleece to guard it I put down.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>And you've purloined my sash. What can this mean?<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>This sash I'll offer to the Paphian queen.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Stay, miscreant-some one comes-I heard a noise.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>'Tis but the green trees whispering of our joys.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>You've torn my plaidie, and I am half unclad.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Anon I'll give thee a yet ampler plaid.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Generous just now, you'll one day grudge me bread.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Ah! for thy sake my life-blood I could shed.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>Artemis, forgive! Thy eremite breaks her vow.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Love, and Love's mother, claim a calf and cow.<br> <br>THE MAIDEN.<br>A woman I depart, my girlhood o'er.<br> <br>DAPHNIS.<br>Be wife, be mother; but a girl no more.<br> <br>Thus interchanging whispered talk the pair,<br>Their faces all aglow, long lingered there.<br>At length the hour arrived when they must part.<br>With downcast eyes, but sunshine in her heart,<br>She went to tend her flock; while Daphnis ran<br>Back to his herded bulls, a happy man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Theocritus">Theocritus</a><div class=q>
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How fell sage Helen? through a swain like thee.
 
DAPHNIS.
Nay the true Helen's just now kissing me.
 
THE MAIDEN.
Satyr, ne'er boast: 'what's idler than a kiss?'
 
DAPHNIS.
Yet in such pleasant idling there is bliss.
 
THE MAIDEN.
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