Dian's Ways
Blest who unwinds the woodland's sunny maze
Dappled with lights and glooms diversified,
Where beams in creviced leafage sport and glide,
Turning transparent green to tender blaze.
But suddenly the covert shakes and sways,
And swift through crashing boughs the deer hath hied,
Shunning her shaft whose eye of startled pride
Launches the brighter bolt that speedier slays.
Her dart the deer, her mood ungentle stays
Suit that the smitten spirit should have sighed,
If Body found but tongue to plead or praise,
Or Soul saw not that Suit must be denied.
Whence then, chaste votary of Dian's ways,
This little faun that trippeth at thy side?
Dappled with lights and glooms diversified,
Where beams in creviced leafage sport and glide,
Turning transparent green to tender blaze.
But suddenly the covert shakes and sways,
And swift through crashing boughs the deer hath hied,
Shunning her shaft whose eye of startled pride
Launches the brighter bolt that speedier slays.
Her dart the deer, her mood ungentle stays
Suit that the smitten spirit should have sighed,
If Body found but tongue to plead or praise,
Or Soul saw not that Suit must be denied.
Whence then, chaste votary of Dian's ways,
This little faun that trippeth at thy side?
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