Forgot his native land, and bade adieu
To wide Ionia, for the island drear,
And wail'd Icarius' house, and Sparta too,
And dropp'd himself the sympathetic tear.
V.
Mimnermus, school'd in hardship, who first taught
To breathe soft airs of elegiac song,
Fair Nanno ask'd, and had; and often sought,
As by her side he blithely trudged along,
The merry wake,—a ready piper arm'd