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The Vine I DREAMED this mortal part of mine Was metamorphosed to a vine, Which crawling one and every way, Enthralled my dainty Lucia. Me thought, her long small legs and thighs I with my tendrils did surprise; Her belly, buttocks and her waist By my soft nervelets were embraced: About her head I writhing hung, And with rich clusters (hid among The leaves) her temples I behung: So that my Lucia seemed to me Young Bacchus ravished by his tree. My curls about her neck did crawl, And arms and hands they did enthrall: So that she could not freefy stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)But when I crept with leaves to hideThose parts, which maids keep unespied,Such fleeting pleasures there I took,That with the fancy I awoke;And found (Ah me!) this flesh of mineMore like a stock than like a vine. [Robert Herrick]
I DREAMED this mortal part of mine Was metamorphosed to a vine, Which crawling one and every way, Enthralled my dainty Lucia. Me thought, her long small legs and thighs I with my tendrils did surprise; Her belly, buttocks and her waist By my soft nervelets were embraced: About her head I writhing hung, And with rich clusters (hid among The leaves) her temples I behung: So that my Lucia seemed to me Young Bacchus ravished by his tree. My curls about her neck did crawl, And arms and hands they did enthrall: So that she could not freefy stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)But when I crept with leaves to hideThose parts, which maids keep unespied,Such fleeting pleasures there I took,That with the fancy I awoke;And found (Ah me!) this flesh of mineMore like a stock than like a vine.
[Robert Herrick]
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