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Atalanta in Calydon

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Oeneus

Who shall give back
      Thy face of old years,
    With travail made black,
      Grown grey among fears,
  Mother of sorrow, mother of cursing, mother of tears?

Meleager

Though thou art as fire
      Fed with fuel in vain,
    My delight, my desire,
      Is more chaste than the rain,
  More pure than the dewfall, more holy than stars
          are that live without stain.

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