Why should our young Endymion pine away !
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oon the assembly, in a drcle ranged.Stood silent round tne shrine : each look was changedTo sudden veneration : women meekBeckon'd their sons to silence ; while each cheekOf virgin bloom paled gently for slight fear.Endymion too, without a forest peer.Stood, wan, and pale, and with an awed face.Among his brothers of the mountain chase.In midst of all, the venerable priestEyed them witii joy from greatest to the least,And, after lifting up his aged hands.Thus spake he : ** Men of Latmos ! shepherd bands !Whose care it is to guard a thousand flocks :Whether descended from beneath the rocksThat overtop your mountains ; whether comeFrom valleys where the pipe is never dumb ; .Or from your swelling downs, where sweet air stirsBlue hare-bells lightly, and where prickly furzeBuds lavish gold ; or ye, whose precious chargeNibble their All at ocean's very marge.Whose mellow reeds are touched wim sounds forlornBy the dim echoes of old Triton's horn :Mothers and wives ! who day by day prepareThe scrip, with needments, for the mountain air ;And all ye gentle girls who foster upUdderless lambs, and in a little cupWill put choice honey for a favour*d youth :Yea, every one attend ! for in good truthOur vows are wanting to our great god Pan.Are not our lowing heifers sleeker wanNight-swoUen muwrooms ! Are not our wide plains
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