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The moist and quiet morn was scarcely breaking	A
When Ariadne in her bower was waking	A
Her eyelids still were closing and she heard	B
But indistinctly yet a little bird	B
That in the leaves o'erhead waiting the sun	C
Seemed answering another distant one	C
She wakes but stirred not only just to please	D
Her pillow nestling cheek while the full seas	D
	E
Her senses lingering in the feel of sleep	F
And with a little smile she seemed to say	G
'I know my love is near me and 'tis day '	E
At length not feeling the accustomed arm	H
That from all sense of fancied want and harm	H
Used to enclose her when she turned that way	G
She stretched her hand to feel where Theseus lay	G
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But how Not there She starts with a small cry	I
And feels the empty space and runs her eye	I
O'er all the bower and stretches from the bed	J
One hasty foot and listens with wild head	J
No sight no voice she tries to smile heart sick	K
And murmurs 'Oh 'tis but some hiding trick	K
He sees me through the boughs ' and so she rose	L
And like a wood nymph through the glimmering goes	L
And for a while delays to call his name	M
Pretending she should spoil his amorous game	M
But stops at last her throat full pulsed with fears	N
And calls convulsively with bursting tears	O
Then calls again and then in the open air	P
Rushes and fiercely calls He is not there	P
	-
The faithless bark far off leaning away	G
And now with gleaming sail and now with dim	Q
Hastening to slip o'er the horizon's brim	Q
'Tis gone and as a dead thing down falls she	R
In the great eye of morn then breaking quietly lines	S
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Some say that Theseus took this selfish flight	T
From common causes a cloyed appetite	T
Others that having brought her sister there	P
As well he turned his easy love to her	U
And others who are sure to quote Heaven's orders	V
For great men's crimes though not for small disorders	V
Pretend that Bacchus in the true old way	G
A dream advised him sternly not to stay	G
But go and cut up nations limb by limb	Q
And leave the lady and the bower to him	Q
One tiling looks certain that the chief that day	G
Was not alone a skulking runaway	G
But left the woman that believed his smile	W
To all the horrors of a desert isle lines	S
	-
'Oh Theseus Theseus ' then awhile she stopped	X
And turned and in her hand her poor face dropped	X
Shaking her head and cried 'How could you go	Y
And leave me here to die that loved you so	Y
I would not have left you even for mirth	Z
Not in the best and safest place on earth	Z
Nor had you been never so false a one	C
Denied you this poor breast to lean upon	A2
Much less for loving too confidingly	W
And yet for nothing worse have you left me	R
Left me left Ariadne sleeping too	B2
Fast by your side and yet for you for you	B2
She left her father country home and all lines	S
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Suddenly from a wood his dancers rush	C2
Leaping like wines that from the bottle gush	C2
Bounding they come and twirl and thrust on high	I
Their thyrsuses as they would rouse the sky	I
And hurry here and there in loosened bands	D2
And trill above their heads their cymballed hands	D2
Some brawny males that almost show from far	E2
Their forceful arms cloudy and muscular	U
Some smoother females who have nevertheless	F2
Strong limbs and hands to fling with and to press	F2
And shapes which they can bend with heavenward glare	P
And tortuous wrists and backward streaming hair	P
A troop of goat foot shapes came trampling after lines	S
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Bacchus took in his arms his bridal lass	G2
And gave and shared as much more happiness	H2
Than Theseus as a noble spirit's caress	F2
Full of sincerity and mind and heart	I2
Out relishes mere fire and self embittering art lines	S
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The grateful god took off from his love's hair	P
Her fervid crown and with a leap i' the air	P
As when a quoiter springs to his firm eye	I
Whirled it in buzzing swiftness to the sky	I
Starry already and with heat within	J2
It fired as it flew up with that fierce spin	J2
And opening into grandeur round and even	J2
Shook its immortal sparkles out of heaven	C
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The easy wear of inward gracefulness	S
Beneath this star this star where'er she be	R
Sits the accomplished female womanly	W
Part of its light is round about her hair	P
And should her gentle cheek be wet with care	P
The tears shall be kissed off as Ariadne's were	U

James Henry Leigh Hunt

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