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Excerpt from Marpessa
Marpessa, being given by Zeus her choice between the god Apollo and Idas a mortal, chose idas.
Wounded with beauty in the summer night Young Idas tossed upon his couch, and cried Marpessa, O Marpessa From the dark The ?oating smell of ?owers iinvisible, The mystic yearning of the garden wet.
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