"Bring running water; bind those altars round With fillets, and with vervain strow the ground: Make fat with frankincense the sacred fires, To re-inflame my Daphnis with desires. 'Tis done: we want but verse.--Restore, my charms, My lingering Daphnis to my longing arms. "Pale Phoebe, drawn by verse, from heaven descends; And Circe changed with charms Ulysses' friends. Verse breaks the ground, and penetrates the brake, And in the winding cavern splits the snake: Verse fires the frozen veins.--Restore, my charms, My lingering Daphnis to my longing arms. "Around his waxen image first I wind Three woollen fillets, of three colours joined; Thrice bind about his thrice-devoted head, Which round the sacred altar thrice is led. Unequal numbers please the gods.--My charms, Restore my Daphnis to my longing arms. "Knit with three knots the fillets; knit them strait; Then say, 'These knots to love I consecrate.' Haste, Amaryllis, haste!--Restore, my charms, My lovely Daphnis to my longing arms. "As fire this figure hardens, made of clay, And this of wax with fire consumes away; Such let the soul of cruel Daphnis be-- Hard to the rest of women, soft to me. Crumble the sacred mole of salt and corn: Next in the fire the bays with brimstone burn; And, while it crackles in the sulphur, say, 'This I for Daphnis burn; thus Daphnis burn away! This laurel is his fate.'--Restore, my charms, My lovely Daphnis to my longing arms. "As when the raging heifer, through the grove, Stung with desire, pursues her wandering love; Faint at the last, she seeks the weedy pools, To quench her thirst, and on the rushes rolls, Careless of night, unmindful to return; Such fruitless fires perfidious Daphnis burn, While I so scorn his love!--Restore, my charms, My lingering Daphnis to my longing arms. "These garments once were his, and left to me, The pledges of his promised loyalty, Which underneath my threshold I bestow: These pawns, O sacred earth! to me my Daphnis owe. As these were his, so mine is he.--My charms, Restore their lingering lord to my deluded arms.