"After many a dusty mile"

After many a dusty mile,
Wanderer, linger here awhile;
Stretch your limbs in this long grass;
Through these pines a wind shall pass
That shall cool you with its wing.

Grasshoppers shall shout and sing,
While the shepherd on the hill,
Near a fountain warbling still,
Modulates, when noon is mute,
Summer songs along his flute;

Underneath a spreading tree,
None so easy-limbed as he,
Sheltered from the dog-star's heat.

Rest; and then, on freshened feet,
You shall pass the forest through.
It is Pan that counsels you.

by Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)

a text in Greek by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]

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by Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) , ""After many a dusty mile"", op. 45 no. 3, published 1903 [TTBB a cappella], from Five Part-songs from the Greek Anthology, no. 3.

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