Volume 1 — SONG.
Reading edition
FROM METASTATIO.
Mild breeze, when thou shalt fan my fair, Tell her a sigh augments thy gales; But to reveal the source forbear, From whence thy gentle breath exhales. Clear stream, if thou her step shalt meet, Say, with a tear thy currents swell, But do not to the nymph repeat, From whose enamour’d lid it fell.