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ENDYMION.
Still Endymion slumbers sweetly. Dian o'er him leans in bliss,
While he sleeps his blooming lips are glowing with her heavenly kiss.
Hush, ye sighing midnight breezes, whisper not to tree or stream!
Let him slumber long and deeply, let him dream his heavenly dream.

Woe to beautiful Endymion, when at length he wakes from sleep.
Oh the dreary void around him, which his burning soul must weep!
Only in our dreams Olympus may upon the world descend.
Only in our dreams immortal may with mortal spirits blend.

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