Pyramus and Thisbe

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1 The house of Pyramus and that of Thisbestood side by side within the mighty cityringed by the tall brick walls Semíramishad built—so we are told. If you searched all5 the East, you’d find no girl with greater charmthan Thisbe; and no boy in Babylonwas handsomer than Pyramus. They owedtheir first encounters to their living closebeside each other—but with time, love grows.10 Theirs did—indeed they wanted to be wed,but marriage was forbidden by their parents:yet there’s one thing that parents can’t prevent: the flame of love that burned in both of them.They had no confidant—and so used signs:15 with these each lover read the other’s mind:when covered, fire acquires still more force.The wall their houses shared had one thin crack,which formed when they were built and then was left;in all these years, no one had seen that cleft;20 but lovers will discover every thing:you were the first to find it, and you madethat cleft a passageway which speech could take.For there the least of whispers was kept safe:it crossed that cleft with words of tenderness.25 And Pyramus and Thisbe often stood,he on this side and she on that; and wheneach heard the other sigh, the lovers said:“O jealous wall, why do you block our path?Oh wouldn’t it be better if you let30 our bodies join each other fully or,if that is asking for too much, just stretchedyour fissure wide enough to let us kiss!And we are not ungrateful: we admitour words reach loving ears.” And having talked35 in vain, the lovers still remained apart.Just so, one night, they wished each other well,and each delivered kisses to the wall—although those kisses could not reach their goal.But on the morning after, when firstlight40 had banished night’s bright star-fires from the skyand sun had left the brine-soaked meadows dry,again they took their places at the cleft.Then, in low whispers—after their laments—those two devised this plan: they’d circumvent45 their guardians’ watchful eyes and, cloaked by night,in silence, slip out from their homes and reacha site outside the city. Lest each losethe other as they wandered separatelyacross the open fields, they were to meet50 at Ninus’ tomb and hide beneath a treein darkness; for beside that tomb there stood a tall mulberry close to a cool spring,a tree well weighted down with snow-white berries.Delighted with their plan—impatiently—55 they waited for the close of day. At lastthe sun plunged down into the waves, and nightemerged from those same waves.