Amaryllis has 4 syllables and the stress is on the third syllable.
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| 1. | I was near you, when you sat beneath those beech-trees, and piped and sang the praises of your sweetheart Amaryllis: I was close to the damsel, but you could not discern me. I gave her to you, and some brave boys, who are now excellent husbandmen and herdsmen, are the pledges of your love. | |
| 2. | I loved Amaryllis. I forgot to eat or to drink; and I could take no rest, for sleep was banished from my eyelids. My soul was sad, my heart beat quick, my limbs felt a deadly chill. Now I wept and cried aloud, as if I had been beaten, now I was as silent as if I were dead, and now I plunged into the rivers, as if to extinguish the flame which consumed me. | |
| 3. | I poured forth praises to the Nymph Echo for repeating the name of Amaryllis. | |
| 4. | I broke my pipes because, although they brought my herds to me, they could not allure Amaryllis: for there is no remedy for the passion, no beverage, no charm, no song, no words that can ease the lover; nothing is of any avail save kisses and the closest embraces. | |
| 5. | Ought we to implore the assistance of the Nymphs? But then Pan did not help Philetas when he loved Amaryllis. |