Psyche, and other poems — page 128: what you’re looking at

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110 ‘ Pleased to assume herself a name so dear | She bids her altars to Dictynna rise, Las Thus called, she ever turns, with willing ear, $k To aid each nymph who for her succour cries. : See how the trembling Arethusa flies : Through pathless woods, o’er rocks and ore pins : In vain to escape the ravisher she tries, — Fast on her rapid flight Alpheus ga Bc 3 7 And scarce her fainting strength the unequal course sustains. And now more near + his dreaded steps she hears, His lengthened shadow flies before her feet, ie Now o’er her neck his panting breath appears: To part her locks, which, in disorder sweet, Ambitious seemed to fan the fervid heat | That flushed her glowing cheek and heightened charms: Hear how her gasping sighs for aid entreat! “‘Dictynna ! pitying see my just alarms, | « And snatch thy fainting maid from those polluting arms.’ ) The goddess hears, and ina favouring cloud Conceals her suppliant from Alpheus?’ sight ; In vain he looks around, and calls aloud, And. wondering seeks the traces of her flight = Enveloped, still she views him with affright, ~ An icy coldness creeps o’er all her frame, And soon, dissolving in a current bright, Be i The silver stream retains her honoured name, And still unmingled flows, and guards its virgin fame. 7 Comichbooks:com