 Quando
fiam ...
V. Pervigilium Veneris. Cf. Philomela in Parts
II and III. [Eliot's note] Pervigilium Veneris (Vigil of
Venus) is an anonymous late Latin poem combining a hymn
to Venus with a description of spring. In the last two
stanzas of the Pervigilium occurs a recollection of the
Tereus-Procne-Philomela myth (except that in this version
the swallow is identified with Philomela): "The maid
of Tereus sings under the poplar shade ... She sings, we
are silent. When will my spring come? When shall I be as
the swallow that I may cease to be silent? I have lost
the Muse in silence, and Apollo regards me not."
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