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Updated: June 13, 2025
To develop this history in all its truth of detail, and to follow its course through many windings, it is necessary here to divulge some of love's secrets, to glide beneath the ceilings of a marriage chamber, not shamelessly, but like Trilby, frightening neither Dougal nor Jeannie, alarming no one, being as chaste as our noble French language requires, and as bold as the pencil of Gerard in his picture of Daphnis and Chloe.
To lead the pure Daphnis life of simplicity, stainlessness, communion with beautiful souls, was to lead the highest life. To find one's bliss in sunshine, flowers, and the winds of heaven in both the physical and moral spheres was to find the highest bliss. Why should not he, Austin Trevor, cripple as he was, so live the Daphnis life as to be himself a Daphnis?
What, for example what of the renowned pseudo-Theocritus, Salamon Gessner, who sang of this same vale of Neto in his "Daphnis"? Alas, the good Salamon has gone the way of all derivative bores; he is dead deader than King Psammeticus; he is now moralizing in some decorous Paradise amid flocks of Dresden-China sheep and sugar-watery youths and maidens.
Artemis, be not wrathful, thy votary breaks her vow. Daphnis. I will slay a calf for Love, and for Aphrodite herself a heifer. The Maiden. A maiden I came hither, a woman shall I go homeward. Daphnis. Nay, a wife and a mother of children shalt thou be, no more a maiden. So, each to each, in the joy of their young fresh limbs they were murmuring: it was the hour of secret love.
Cloe, repulsed by Thenot, sings her roguishly wanton carol: Her fortune with the modest Daphnis is scarcely better, and she is just lamenting the coldness of men when Alexis enters and forthwith accosts her with his fervent suit. She agrees, with a pretty show of yielding modesty: The last lines, however fine in themselves, are utterly out of place in the mouth of this morbid sentimentalist.
The shepherds may sing of Crathon, or Sybaris, or Himeras, waters so sweet that they seem to flow with milk and honey. Again, Theocritus may encounter his rustics fluting in rivalry, like Daphnis and Menalcas in the eighth idyl, 'on the long ranges of the hills. Their kine and sheep have fed upwards from the lower valleys to the place where
Yea I, out of many chosen, come here thy wooer. The Maiden. Dear love, what can I do? Marriage has much annoy. Daphnis. Nor pain nor sorrow has marriage, but mirth and dancing. The Maiden. Ay, but they say that women dread their lords. Daphnis. Nay, rather they always rule them, whom do women fear? The Maiden. Travail I dread, and sharp is the shaft of Eilithyia. Daphnis.
When he had nothing to do he painted for one of the Duchess's cabinets all the pastoral romance of "Daphnis and Chloe." He painted a part of the battles of Alexander. These designs were engraved by Benoit Audran; they embellish what is called "the Regent's edition" of the Pastoral of Longus, which was printed under his inspection in the year 1718.
But to her Daphnis answered again: 'Implacable Cypris, Cypris terrible, Cypris of mortals detested, already dost thou deem that my latest sun has set; nay, Daphnis even in Hades shall prove great sorrow to Love. Begin, ye Muses dear, begin the pastoral song! 'Where it is told how the herdsman with Cypris Get thee to Ida, get thee to Anchises!
With such return of passion as is due, Daphnis I love, Daphnis my thoughts pursue, Daphnis, my hopes, my joys are bounded all in you! Nearly thirty years later the same accent is audible, thinned a little by advancing years, and subdued from passion to tenderness, yet as genuine as at first.
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