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 Hymn To Eros by Denise Levertov 
						O Eros, silently smiling one, hear me.Let the shadow of thy wings
 brush me.
 Let thy presence
 enfold me, as if darkness
 were swandown.
 Let me see that darkness
 lamp in hand,
 this country become
 the other country
 sacred to desire.
 
 Drowsy god,
 slow the wheels of my thought
 so that I listen only
 to the snowfall hush of
 thy circling.
 Close my beloved with me
 in the smoke ring of thy power,
 that we way be, each to the other,
 figures of flame,
 figures of smoke,
 figures of flesh
 newly seen in the dusk.
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