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Rodin in Rime
Rodin in Rime (1907), PDF p. 100
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LE CYCLOPS SURPREND ACIS ET GALATHEE
OILED in the hollow of the rock they kiss,
Rolled in one sphere of rapture; looks intense
With love, and laughter shapen of innocence!
They cling, and close, and overhang the abyss.
But over them! What monster, then, is this
Crouched for his spring, gross muscles nude and tense,
Bulged eyeballs ready for the rape, immense
In hate, the imminent spectre? He it is,
The Cyclops. Ay! thought Zeus, and what of that?
Were it not well for love, in red rough maw
Swift crunched, to expiate my eldest law?
Better, far better thus. True love lies flat,
A weary plain beyond the single peak.
I then will pity them. I will not speak.
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