Anacreon, Bion, and Moschus

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 ...verdant myrtle bowers; Ceres nor Bacchus absent be, Nor yet the poet's All night we wholly must employ In vigils, and in songs of joy; None but Diana must bear sway Amongst the woods, Delia gives way. Love he to-morrow, who lov'd never; To-morrow, who hath lov'd, persever. She the tribunal did command Deck'd with Dyhtean flowers should stand; She will in judgment sit; the Graces On either side shall have their places; Hybla thy flowers pour forth whate'er Was brought thee by the welcome year; Hybla thy flowery garment spread, Wide as is Enna's fruitful mead; Maids of the country here will be; Maids of the mountains come to see; Hither resort, all such as dwell Either in grove, or wood, or well; The wing'd boy's mother, every one Commands in order to sit down; Charging the virgins, that they must In nothing Love, though naked, trust. Love he to-morrow, who lov'd never; To-morrow, who hath lov'd, persever. Let the fresh covert of a shade Be by these early flowers display'd; To-morrow (which with sports and play We keep) was Other's wedding-day; When first the father of the spring Did out of clouds the young year bring; The husband Shower then courts his spouse, And in her sacred bosom flows. That all which that vast body bred By this defluxion may be Produc'd within, she all there sways, By a hid spirit, which by ways Unknown diffus'd, through soul and veins, All things both governs and sustains. Piercing through the unsounded sea, And earth, and highest heaven, she All places with her power doth fill, WTiich through each part she doth distil; And to the world the mystic ways Of all production open lays. Love he to-morrow, who lov'd never; To-morrow, who hath lov'd, persever. She to the Latins did transfer The Trojan nephews; and by her Was the La...