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Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,
Love has blinded him with tears;
But Thetis' belly listens.
Down the mountain walls
From where pan's cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.
Slim Adolescence That A Nymph Has Stripped
William Butler Yeats
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Poem topics: music, head, mountain, shoulder, delicate, love, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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