Through Colophon,) and shouts of joyfulness,

The air was riv'n: for thou didst hear the tale

Of Galatea lost, fair shepherdess,

Whom e'en the firstlings of her flock bewail.

XI.

Nor is Philetas' name to thee unknown,

Than whom a sweeter minstrel never was;

Whose statue lives in his own native town,

Hallow'd to fame, and breathes in deathless brass,

Under a platane,—seeming still to praise