‘But by that change in many climes I live;

And Pan, my lover, who to me alone

Is true and does me honour, I forgive—

Nor if I speak in sorrow is’t my own:

Rather for thee my voice I now uplift

To warn thee plunge not in the river swift,

Nor seek the golden sheep to men unknown.

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‘If thou should cross the stream, which may not be

Thou coudst not climb upon the hanging rocks,