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Yeats, "Leda and the Swan"
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bcf1e238-d740-4017-931a-cd7cd97bbe48/B9971DB7-40DC-4A71-999C-7C0D89A8F9BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/08/humanity-caught-up-on-yeats-and-swan.html" href="http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/08/humanity-caught-up-on-yeats-and-swan.html" style="font-size: 11px;">inrethinking.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/08/humanity-caught-up-on-yeats-and-swan.html"><B>Leda and the Swan</B><BR /><DIV><I>William Butler Yeats</I></DIV><BR />A sudden blow: the great wings beating still<BR />Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed<BR />By his dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,<BR /><DIV>He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.</DIV><BR />How can those terrified vague fingers push<BR />The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?<BR />How can anybody, laid in that white rush,<BR /><DIV>But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?</DIV><BR />A shudder in the loins, engenders there<BR />The broken wall, the burning roof and tower<BR />And Agamemnon dead.<BR />Being so caught up,<BR />So mastered by the brute blood of the air,<BR />Did she put on his knowledge with his power<BR /><DIV>Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9971DB7-40DC-4A71-999C-7C0D89A8F9BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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