. . . But I will go my way to yonder hillside, singing low to sand and shore my supplication of the cruel Galatea; for I will not give over my sweet hopes till I come unto uttermost old age . . .

αὐτὰρ ἐγὼν βασεῦμαι ἐμὰν ὁδὸν ἐς τὸ κάταντες
τῆνο ποτὶ ψάμαθόν τε καὶ ἀιόνα ψιθυρίσδων,
λισσόμενος Γαλάτειαν ἀπηνέα· τὰς δὲ γλυκείας
ἐλπίδας ὑστατίῳ μέχρι γήραος οὐκ ἀπολειψῶ.

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I to the sandy shore and seaward slope Will go, and try with murmured song to bend The cruel Galatea: my sweet hope I'll cast away—when life itself doth end.

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(M. J. Chapman, 1836)

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