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Why have the gods in derision

Severed us, heart of my being?

Where have they lured thee to wander,

O my lost lover?

While now I sojourn with sorrow, 5

Having remorse for my comrade,

What town is blessed with thy beauty,

Gladdened and prospered?

Nay, who could love as I loved thee,

With whom thy beauty was mingled 10

In those spring days when the swallows

Came with the south wind?

Then I became as that shepherd

Loved by Selene on Latmus,

Once when her own summer magic 15

Took hold upon her

With a sweet madness, and thenceforth

Her mortal lover must wander

Over the wide world for ever,

Like one enchanted. 20