Leda (Classic Reprint)
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Partner: | buecher.de |
Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Huxley, Aldous) |
Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Leda Leda Brown and bright as an agate, mountain-cool, Eurotas singing slips from pool to pool; Down rocky gullies; through the cavernous pines, And chestnut groves; down where the terraced vines And gardens overhang; through valleys grey With olive trees, into a soundless bay Of the Ægean. Silent and asleep Lie those pools now: but where they dream most deep, Men sometimes see ripples of shining hair And the young grace of bodies pale and bare, Shimmering far down - the ghosts these mirrors hold Of all the beauty they beheld of old, White limbs and heavenly eyes and the hair´s river of gold, For once these banks were peopled: Spartan girls Loosed here their maiden girdles and their curls, And stooping o´er the level water stole His darling mirror from the sun through whole Rapturous hours of gazing. The first star Of all this milky constellation, far Lovelier than any nymph of wood or green, Was she whom Tyndarus had made his queen For her sheer beauty and subtly moving grace - Leda, the fairest of our mortal race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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