Pan loved his neighbour Echo -- but that child Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping; The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild The bright nymph Lyda, -- and so three went weeping. As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr, The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them. -- And thus to each -- which was a woful matter -- To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them; For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover, Each, loving, so was hated. -- Ye that love not Be warned -- in thought turn this example over, That when ye love, the like return ye prove not. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHITE PEACOCK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET SPOKEN AT A CASTLE GATE by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON APPRECIATION by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE IMMORTAL MIND by GEORGE GORDON BYRON LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PHANTOMS ALL by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD |