"There's something wrong with me these days, but I don't know what it is. I'm in pain, and yet I've not been injured. I feel sad, and yet none of my sheep have got lost. I'm burning hot, and yet here I am sitting in the shade. How often I've been scratched by brambles and not cried? How often I've been stung by bees and not screamed! But this thing that's pricking my heart hurts more than anything like that. Daphnis is beautiful, but so are the flowers. His pipe does sound beautiful, but so do the nightingales — and I don't worry about them. If only I were his pipe, so that he'd breathe into me!"
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§ 14 (tr. Paul Turner); cp. Theocritus, Idyll XIX
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