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Weep for Adonis. The fair Adonis hath perished. 

 Perished has fair Adonis, and the Loves bewail his fate. 

 No longer sleep in thy robes of purple, Cypris. Rouse 

 thyself to sorrow, and in garments of mourning beat 

 thy breast and tell it to all : The fair Adonis hath 

 perished. (') 



cf. Moschus, 1-2, 7, 17, 18. 



Sing woe ye forest glades and Dorian waters, 



and rivers also, lament the lovely Bion. * * * A 



fair minstrel hath perished. ***** gay to the Muses, 



the daughters of Oeagreus, say to all the Thracian nymphs : 



the Dorian Orpheus hath perished. ^^^ 



Stanza II. 



Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay. 

 When thy son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies 

 In darkness? Where was lorn Urania 

 When Adonais died ? 



cf. Theocritus, 66. 



Where were ye, Nymphs, when Daphnis was wasting 

 in death — O, where were ye ? ^^^ 



I need hardly call attention to the fact that Shelley makes 



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 (oXeTO KaXb<; " Aha>vL<; • i7raid^ovaiv''E>pcoTe<i. 

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 eypeo SeiXaia KvavocnoXe kuI TrXard'yricrov 

 arrjdea KaX Xeye irdcnv aTrcoXero KaXbf "AScovi^ 



^^^ AtXivd fioi aTOva'X^eije vdirai koX Acoptov vbcop^ 

 Kal irorafiol KXaioire tov Ifxepoevra B«wya. 

 ****** /caA.09 TedvaKe fieXtKrd^ 



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etTrare 8' av Kovpai^ Olaypiaiv eiTrare irdaat,^ 

 ^icrTOviai<i ^vfi(f)ai,(7iv, dirdiXero A(opio<i '0/3(^eu?. 



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Tret TTOK dp' ^ffO', OKa Ad<}>vK eraKero, irel ttoku Ny/x^at; 



