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Pan, Echo, And The Satyr. From The Greek Of Moschus.

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Pan loved his neighbour Echo - but that child     Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;     The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild     The bright nymph Lyda, and so three went weeping.     As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr,     The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them. -     And thus to each - which was a woeful matter -     To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them;     For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover,     Each, loving, so was hated. - Ye that love not     Be warned - in thought turn this example over,     That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.

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