even the rivers you would ; see run dry.”THYRSIS“The field is parched, the grass-blades thirst to deathin the faint air; Liber hath grudged the hillshis vine's o'er-shadowing: should my Phyllis come,green will be all the grove, and Jupiterdescend in floods of fertilizing rain.”CORYDON“The poplar doth Alcides hold most dear,the vine Iacchus, Phoebus his own bays,and Venus fair the myrtle: therewithalphyllis doth hazels love, and while she loves,myrtle nor bay the hazel shall out-vie.”THYRSIS“Ash in the forest is most beautiful,pine in the garden, poplar by the stream,fir on the mountain-height; but if more oftthou'ldst come to me, fair Lycidas, to theeboth forest-ash, and garden-pine should bow.”MELIBOEUSThese I remember, and how Thyrsis strovefor victory in vain. From that time forthis Corydon still Corydon with us.
TO POLLIO. DAMON ALPHESIBOEUSof Damon and Alphesiboeus now,