New idylles . tender and plaintive ac-cents faid : * Hear, O fweet goddefs, protedrefs thou of faithfullovers! Hear my prayer. Favourably accept thefe flowersI dare to offer thee; they are yet wet v^ith the dew of eveningand with my tears. Tis now fix days fince Alexis has beenfar diftant from me. O propitious goddefs reftore him to myarms ! proteâ: him by the way, and bring him back faithfuland tender as when he parted from me. Return him to me,that I may prefs him to my bofom, that now pants withlove ! Alexis heard; and he difcoverd the young fliepherd, whoflood oppofite to him, and on whofe
New idylles . tender and plaintive ac-cents faid : * Hear, O fweet goddefs, protedrefs thou of faithfullovers! Hear my prayer. Favourably accept thefe flowersI dare to offer thee; they are yet wet v^ith the dew of eveningand with my tears. Tis now fix days fince Alexis has beenfar diftant from me. O propitious goddefs reftore him to myarms ! proteâ: him by the way, and bring him back faithfuland tender as when he parted from me. Return him to me,that I may prefs him to my bofom, that now pants withlove ! Alexis heard; and he difcoverd the young fliepherd, whoflood oppofite to him, and on whofe vifage the moon nowfhone. It was the brother of Daphne. Full of tender fears ihedared not expofe herfelf to the dangers of the night, by goingalone to the temple of Venus. 72 JEALOUSY. Idyl XX. Alexis, quitting the pillar that conceald him, fuddenly ap-peard before his love. Daphne, feizd with the fweeteft ex-tafy, and Alexis tranfported with joy and fhame, funk in eachothers arms at the feet of the ??^^
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