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Theocritus (Author: Oscar Wilde)
p.756
A Villanelle
- 1] O singer of Persephone!
2] In the dim meadows desolate
3] Dost thou remember Sicily?
- 4] Still through the ivy flits the bee
5] Where Amaryllis lies in state;
6] O Singer of Persephone!
- 7] Simętha calls on Hecate
8] And hears the wild dogs at the gate;
9] Dost thou remember Sicily?
- 10] Still by the light and laughing sea
11] Poor Polypheme bemoans his fate:
12] O Singer of Persephone!
- 13] And still in boyish rivalry
14] Young Daphnis challenges his mate:
15] Dost thou remember Sicily?
p.757
- 16] Slim Lacon keeps a goat for thee,
17] For thee the jocund shepherds wait;
18] O Singer of Persephone!
19] Dost thou remember Sicily?