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Updated: June 23, 2025
Everything fits in to complete the reproduction of Greek pastoral life. The goats eat cytisus and myrtle on the shore; a whole flock gathered round me as I sat beneath a tuft of golden green euphorbia the other day, and nibbled bread from my hands. The frog still croaks by tank and fountain, 'whom the Muses have ordained to sing for aye, in spite of Bion's death.
It seems that I have through enchantment passed, And lived and loved in that fair court of old. "Yes, yes, I know The old Greek idylls about which you rave, Theocritus and his melodious flow Of verse, and all that Moschus sang o'er Bion's grave. "You've shown me oft How far superior all that they have said That Tennyson has learned to soar aloft By seeking inspiration from the greater dead.
It is a metamorphosis whereby the art of excellent but positive poets has been translated into the sphere of metaphysical imagination. Urania takes the place of Aphrodite; the thoughts and fancies and desires of the dead singer are substituted for Bion's cupids; and instead of mountain shepherds, the living bards of England are summoned to lament around the poet's bier.
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