Il Pastor Fido Author:Battista Guarini Subtitle: Or, the Faithful Shepherd : a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy : Attempted in English Blank Verse From the Italian of Signor Cavalier Giovanni Battista Guarini ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Original Publisher: Printed by C. Stewart, for the translator Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of t... more »he original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: These lively kisses have a voice That speaks great things with little noise, And secrets sweet, which they alone That love, can know, to others all unknown. Such life, such mutual delights Are found where soul with soul unites : As kisses when return'd, most pleasing prove, So joy two hearts that render love for love. END OF THE SECoND ACT. chapter{Section 4 THE FAITHFUL SHEPHERD ACT III. SCENE I. MlRTILLo. Mir. O gentle spring, youth of the new-born year, Mother of flowers, new verdure, and new loves'! Fair season, thou return'st again, But not with thee. return Those happy days thou hast been wont to bring, Whose every hour was joy; thou art return'd, But with thee nought, alas! returns, Save the sad recollection of my dear Lost treasure, ah! remembrance full of woe I -- - Thou art the same, the very same Fair smiling season as thou wert before, But I am now no more what once I was, So dear to those fair eyes, my only joy! O bitter sweets of love! far heavier grief It is to lose, than never to have known Or tasted love's delights I how blest a thing Were love, when gain'd, if it could ne'er be lost, Or being lost, all memory then Of the lost happiness should vanish too ! But if my hopes to-day, as they are wont, Be not of glass, or if my ardent love Make not my hope too great, I'll here behold That nymph, the sun of my desiring eye...« less