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.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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