"Hushed be on Dryads’ wooded rock the rills, And hushed the bleatings on the meads, Now Pan his pipe with breath melodious fills And kisses with moist lip the reeds; While, treading nimble dances all around, Dryads and Hamadryads beat the ground."
— Pseudo-Platonica

January 1, 1970

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Other translations: Be still, ye wooded cliffs and waterfalls And mingled bleatings from the murmuring meads! For Pan with sweetly ringing music calls, Laying his lip on pipe of bounden reeds: And round him, dancing swift with glimmering feet, Nymphs of the forest and the fountain meet. —J. A. Butler, Amaranth and Asphodel (1881), "A Song of Plato (Pan Piping)"