A LC EST IS ^^1
And pipe, adown the winding hill-side paths,
Pastoral maiTiage-poems to thy flocks
At feed : while with them fed in fellowship,
Through joy i' the music, spot-skin lynxes ; ay,
And lions too, the bloody company, 910
Came, leaving Othrus' dell ; ^ and round thy lyre,
Phoibos, there danced the speckle-coated fawn.
Pacing on lightsome fetlock past the pines
Tress-topped, the creature's natural boundary.
Into the open everywhere ; such heart as
Had she within her, beating joyous beats,
At the sweet reassurance of thy song !
Therefore the lot o' the master is, to live
In a home multitudinous with herds.
Along by the fair-flowing Boibian lake,^ 920
Limited, that ploughed land and pasture-plain.
Only where stand the sun's steeds, stabled west
I' the cloud, by that mid-air which makes the clime
Of those Molossoi : ^ and he rules as well
O'er the Aigaian,"* up to Pelion's shore, — 925
Sea-stretch without a port ! Such lord have we :
And here he opens house now, as of old.
Takes to the heart of it a guest again :
Though moist the eyelid of the master, still
Mourning his dear wife's body, dead but now ! " 930
They ended, for A dmetos entered tiow ; 940
Having disposed all duteously indoors. . . .
He woidd have hidden the hind iiresence there 950
Observe that, — since the corpse was coming out.
Cared for in all things that hefit the case.
Carried aloft, in decency and state,
^ In Tliessaly. 2 Jn Thessaly.
3 A people of Epirus, near to Thessaly. * The Aegean Sea.
