Pausanias

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Excerpt from Pausanias: A Dramatic PoemPausanias' apartments in Byzantium. An audience chamber near Pausanias' sleeping-room. The pillars are of dark green marble and the hangings are of a deep red. At the back are windows looking out on the streets of Byzantium. There are a few heavy state chairs of shining ebony, but for the greater part the room is marked by a military simplicity. It is entered by doors to right and left.Between the windows at the rear is a balcony looking out over the houses of Byzantium toward the distant hills. A divan to the left is of ebony like the chairs.Myron and Draca stand by the door at the left, talking.Draca. Methinks, good Myron, that upon thy browThere hangs a darker gloom than huntsmen feel, Who straying on Taygetus mountain seekFor game, but lose, deep in the forest shades, Their way. Speak, Myron, wherefore art thou sad?Myron. Ah, would I might put all my grief in wordsSo none of it were left within my heart!This is a world that changes with the wind, And in the affairs of men 'tis ever autumn.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.