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Why have the gods in derision / Severed us, heart of my being? / Where have they lured thee to wander, / O my lost lover?
While now I sojourn with sorrow, / Having remorse for my comrade, / What town is blessed with thy beauty, / Gladdened and prospered?
Nay, who could love as I loved thee, / With whom thy beauty was mingled / In those spring days when the swallows / Came with the south wind?
Then I became as that shepherd / Loved by Selene on Latmus, / Once when her own summer magic / Took hold upon her
With a sweet madness, and thenceforth / Her mortal lover must wander / Over the wide world for ever, / Like one enchanted.