Tempe : Vale of Tempe, between southern Olympus & northern Ossa Massifs of northeast Thessaly; sacred to Apollo & extolled by many poets including Virgil.
... now has wed the rose, Now ivy on the bramble grows; Too happy lover, fill the lamp of bliss! Too happy lover, drunk with Nisa's kiss! For thee pale Cynthia leaves her golden car, For thee from Tempe stoops the white and evening star. O plaintive, murmuring reed, renew thy strain; O solace anguish yet again. I thought Love soft as velvet sleep, Sweeter than dews nocturnal breezes weep ...
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