The Strife of Love in a Dream

melted, rushing down from the
mountains, which seemed to be not at all far away,
because they were all draped in the white tapestry of the God Pan original: "Dieu Pan"; a poetic reference to the snow covering the mountains, associated with the god of the wild..
I had truly reached this river several times during my flight
through the forest, but I had not been able to perceive it, because the place was
dark, for one could only see the sky through the tips of the trees: a thing which
rendered this place very horrible and terrifying to a man alone and lost, and without
means to pass further, for there was neither bridge nor plank: moreover, the other side
showed itself more dark and gloomy than that where I then was, so
that it was a great horror to me to hear the whistling and roaring of the tumbling trees,
with the thunder of branches cast down and shattered, intermingled with the noise and
song of the horrible thunder; which, held in the air and enclosed among these trees, seemed
to redouble and echo half an hour after the strike. When I had escaped
from all these afflictions, and desired to taste of this sweet water,

approach, I heard it in another place: and when I had come there, it
seemed to have shifted elsewhere: and as it changed its place, it seemed to
become more melodious. Now after I had long run in this vain
and frivolous labor, I felt myself so weak that I could hardly sustain this body,
as much because of the past fear and the great cold still present, as for the
long and tedious walking in the harsh heat
of the day, which had debilitated my manly strength, so much so that I desired nothing
else but rest, to refresh my weary limbs. Thus being
marveled at what had happened to me, and greatly stunned by this voice, but much
more to find myself in an unknown and uncultivated region, nevertheless
quite beautiful and pleasant, I complained greatly of having lost the beautiful fountain;
and my body was so weakened by the great labor that I threw myself upon the grass, at the foot of a very ancient Oak original: "Chesne", which cast
shade upon a green meadow.

I placed both knees on the ground upon the bank of the fountain: and from the hollow of my
two hands I made a vessel which I filled with this liquor. But as I
thought to bring it to my mouth to quench my burning thirst, I heard a song
so powerfully melodious that it exceeds the power and knowledge to declare it: for the sweetness
of this harmony gave me much more delight than the drinking
which was so agreeable to me, so much so that I lost my senses, thirst, and understanding: and as
if I had been numbed by it, the water I had already drawn spilled through the gaps
between my fingers, so much did I find myself destitute of strength. Now, like the fish
which, by the sweetness of the bait original: "l'apast", does not consider the fraud of the hook original: "l'amesson" that it
covers: I went in great haste before my natural need, and went forward
toward that inhuman voice: to which, when by reason I thought I should

There I let myself fall upon my left side, like the hunted and exhausted stag who
rests his head upon his back and falls upon both knees. Then lying in
this manner, I considered within myself the variable mutations of fortune:
and I remembered the enchantments of Circe The sorceress from Homer's Odyssey who turned men into beasts., and others like her,
pondering if I were not perhaps bewitched. Alas, I said to myself, how shall I here among
so many different herbs find Moly A magical herb mentioned in Greek mythology as an antidote to sorcery. the mercurial, with its black root,
for my refuge and medicine? Then I thought, it is not that: but what is it then?
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