Apollo left the golden Muse <br />And shepherded a mortal's sheep, <br />Theocritus of Syracuse! <br /> <br />To mock the giant swain that woo's <br />The sea-nymph in the sunny deep, <br />Apollo left the golden Muse. <br /> <br />Afield he drove his lambs and ewes, <br />Where Milon and where Battus reap, <br />Theocritus of Syracuse! <br /> <br />To watch thy tunny-fishers cruise <br />Below the dim Sicilian steep <br />Apollo left the golden Muse. <br /> <br />Ye twain did loiter in the dews, <br />Ye slept the swain's unfever'd sleep, <br />Theocritus of Syracuse! <br /> <br />That Time might half with HIS confuse <br />Thy songs,--like his, that laugh and leap, - <br />Theocritus of Syracuse, <br />Apollo left the golden Muse!<br /><br />Andrew Lang<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/villanelle-9/
