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IN summer's heat, and mid-time of the day, |
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To rest my limbs, upon a bed I lay; |
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One window shut, the other open stood, |
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Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood, |
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Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun, |
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Or night being past, and yet not day begun; |
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Such light to shamefaced maidens must be shown |
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Where they may sport, and seem to be unknown: |
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Then came Corinna in her long loose gown, |
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Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down, |
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Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed, |
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Or Lais of a thousand wooers sped. |
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I snatched her gown being thin, the harm was small, |
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Yet strived she to be covered therewithal, |
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And striving thus as one that would be cast, |
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Betrayed herself, and yielded at the last. |
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Stark naked as she stood before mine eye, |
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Not one wen in her body could I spy. |
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What arms and shoulders did I touch and see, |
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How apt her breasts were to be pressed by me, |
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How smooth a belly under her waist saw I, |
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How large a leg, and what a lusty thigh. |
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To leave the rest, all liked me passing well; |
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I clinged her naked body, down she fell: |
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Judge you the rest, being tired she bade me kiss; |
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Jove send me more such afternoons as this! |
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