Metamorphoses (Books I-XIV)
Cyane dissolves to a Fountain
5:646 But still does Cyane the rape bemoan,
5:647 And with the Goddess' wrongs
laments her own;
5:648 For the stoln maid, and for her
injur'd spring,
5:649 Time to her trouble no relief
can bring.
5:650 In her sad heart a heavy load
she bears,
5:651 'Till the dumb sorrow turns her
all to tears.
5:652 Her mingling waters with that
fountain pass,
5:653 Of which she late immortal Goddess
was;
5:654 Her varied members to a fluid
melt,
5:655 A pliant softness in her bones
is felt;
5:656 Her wavy locks first drop away
in dew,
5:657 And liquid next her slender fingers
grew.
5:658 The body's change soon seizes
its extreme,
5:659 Her legs dissolve, and feet flow
off in stream.
5:660 Her arms, her back, her shoulders,
and her side,
5:661 Her swelling breasts in little
currents glide,
5:662 A silver liquor only now remains
5:663 Within the channel of her purple
veins;
5:664 Nothing to fill love's grasp;
her husband chaste
5:665 Bathes in that bosom he before
embrac'd.
Metamorphoses (Books I-XIV)
Cyane dissolves to a Fountain
5:646 But still does Cyane the rape bemoan,
5:647 And with the Goddess' wrongs
laments her own;
5:648 For the stoln maid, and for her
injur'd spring,
5:649 Time to her trouble no relief
can bring.
5:650 In her sad heart a heavy load
she bears,
5:651 'Till the dumb sorrow turns her
all to tears.
5:652 Her mingling waters with that
fountain pass,
5:653 Of which she late immortal Goddess
was;
5:654 Her varied members to a fluid
melt,
5:655 A pliant softness in her bones
is felt;
5:656 Her wavy locks first drop away
in dew,
5:657 And liquid next her slender fingers
grew.
5:658 The body's change soon seizes
its extreme,
5:659 Her legs dissolve, and feet flow
off in stream.
5:660 Her arms, her back, her shoulders,
and her side,
5:661 Her swelling breasts in little
currents glide,
5:662 A silver liquor only now remains
5:663 Within the channel of her purple
veins;
5:664 Nothing to fill love's grasp;
her husband chaste
5:665 Bathes in that bosom he before
embrac'd.