A Moment in LOVE

Soliloquy on Chloe`s Kiss

Upon one occasion, when alone, she thus reasoned with herself

I am no doubt ill, but what my malady is I know not:

I am in pain, and yet I have no wound:

I feel grief and I have lost none of my flock:

I burn, and yet am sitting in the shade:

how often have brambles tore my skin, without my shedding a single tear!

how often have the bees have stung me, yet I could still enjoy my meals.

What ever it is which now wounds my heart, so must be sharper that either of these.

Daphnis is beautiful, so are the flowers;

his pipe breathes sweetly, so does the nightingale:

Yet I take no account, either of birds or flowers.

Would that I become a pipe that he might play upon me!

or a goat that i might pasture under his care!

O cruel fountain, thou madest Daphnis alone beautiful;

MY bathing has been in vain!

Dapnis and Chloe by Longus


Viv's Comment:
MAYBE CHLOE SHOULD HAVE BEEN BATHING IN ZARVIS