Pan, Echo, and the Satyr

FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS.

Pan loved his neighbour Echo--but that child

Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;

The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild

The bright nymph Lyda,--and so three went weeping.

As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr,

The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them.--

And thus to each--which was a woful matter--

To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them;

For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover,

Each, loving, so was hated.--Ye that love not

Be warned--in thought turn this example over,

That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.