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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=457206" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Despairing Shepherd</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=457206" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Alexis shun'd his Fellow Swains,<br>Their rural Sports, and jocund Strains:<br>(Heav'n guard us all from Cupid's Bow!)<br>He lost his Crook, He left his Flocks;<br>And wand'ring thro' the lonely Rocks,<br>He nourish'd endless Woe.<br>The Nymphs and Shepherds round Him came:<br>His Grief Some pity, Others blame:<br>The fatal Cause All kindly seek.<br>He mingled his Concern with Their's:<br>He gave 'em back their friendly Tears:<br>He sigh'd, but would not speak.<br>Clorinda came among the rest:<br>And She too kind Concern exprest,<br>And ask'd the Reason of his Woe:<br>She ask'd, but with an Air and Mein,<br>That made it easily foreseen,<br>She fear'd too much to know.<br>The Shepherd rais'd his mournful Head:<br>And will You pardon Me, He said,<br>While I the cruel Truth reveal?<br>Which nothing from my Breast should tear;<br>Which never should offend Your Ear;<br>But that You bid Me tell.<br>'Tis thus I rove, 'tis thus complain;<br>Since You appear'd upon the Plain:<br>You are the Cause of all my Care:<br>Your Eyes ten thousand Dangers dart:<br>Ten thousand Torments vex My Heart:<br>I love, and I despair.<br>Too much, Alexis, I have heard:<br>'Tis what I thought; 'tis what I fear'd:<br>And yet I pardon You, She cry'd:<br>But You shall promise ne'er again<br>To breath your Vows, or speak your Pain:<br>He bow'd, obey'd, and dy'd.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a></strong></div>