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Lamia - Classic Poetry (Paperback)
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Lamia - Classic Poetry (Paperback)
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Upon a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the
prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and
mantle, clasp'd with dewy gem, Frighted away the Dryads and the
Fauns From rushes green, and brakes, and cowslip'd lawns, The
ever-smitten Hermes empty left His golden throne, bent warm on
amorous theft: From high Olympus had he stolen light, On this side
of Jove's clouds, to escape the sight Of his great summoner, and
made retreat Into a forest on the shores of Crete. For somewhere in
that sacred island dwelt A nymph, to whom all hoofed Satyrs knelt;
At whose white feet the languid Tritons poured Pearls, while on
land they wither'd and adored. Fast by the springs where she to
bathe was wont, And in those meads where sometime she might haunt,
Were strewn rich gifts, unknown to any Muse,
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