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Oreithyia by the North Wind carried	A
To stormy Thrace from Athens where you tarried	A
Down by Ilissus all a blowy day	A
Among the asphodels how rapt away	A
Thither and in what frozen bed wert married	A
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I was a King's tall daughter still unwed	A
Slim and desirable my locks to shed	A
Free from the fillet He my maiden belt	A
Undid with busy fingers hid but felt	A
And made me wife upon no marriage bed	A
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As idly there I lay alone he came	B
And blew upon my side and beat a flame	B
Into my cheeks and kindled both my eyes	C
I suffered him who took no bodily guise	C
The light clouds know whether I was to blame	B
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Into my mouth he blew an amorous breath	D
I panted but lay still as quiet as death	D
The whispering planes and sighing grasses know	E
Whether it was the wind that loved me so	E
I know not only this 'O love ' he saith	D
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'O long beset with love and overloved	A
O easy saint untempted and unproved	A
O walking stilly virgin ways in hiding	F
Come out thou art too choice for such abiding	F
She never valued ease who never roved	A
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'Thou mayst not see thy lover but he now	G
Is here and claimeth thy low moonlit brow	G
Thy wonderful eyes and lips that part and pout	A
And polished throat that like a flower shoots out	A
From thy dark vesture folded and crossed low '	-
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With that he had his way and went his way	A
For Gods have mastery and a maiden's nay	A
Grows faint ere it is whispered all I sped	A
Homeward with startled face and tiptoe tread	A
And up the stair and in my chamber lay	A
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Crouching I lay and quaked and heard the wind	A
Wail round the house like a mad thing confined	A
And had no rest turn wheresoe'er I would	A
This urgent lover stormed my solitude	A
And beat against the haven of my mind	A
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And over all a clamour and dis ease	H
Filled earth and air and shuddered in my knees	H
So that I could not stand but by the wall	I
Leaned pitifully breathing Still his call	I
Volleyed against the house and tore the trees	H
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Then out my turret window as I might	A
I leaned my body to the blind wet night	A
That eager lover leapt me circled round	A
Wreathed folded held me prisoner wrapt and bound	A
In manacles of terror and delight	A
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That night he sealed me to him and I went	A
Thenceforth his leman submiss and content	A
So from the hall and feast whenas I heard	A
His clear voice call I flitted like a bird	A
That beats the brake and garnered what he lent	A
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I was no maid that was no wife my days	J
Went by in dreams whose lights are golden haze	J
And skies are crimson Laughing not nor crying	F
I strayed all witless with my loose hair flying	F
Bearing that load that women think their praise	J
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And felt my breasts grow heavy with that food	A
That women laugh to feel and think it good	A
But I went shamefast hanging down my head	A
With girdle all too strait to serve my stead	A
And bore an unguessed burden in my blood	A
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There was a winter night he came again	K
And shook the window till cried out my pain	L
Unto him saying 'Lord I dare not live	M
Lord I must die of that which thou didst give	N
Pity me Lord ' and fell The winter rain	L
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Beat at the casement burst it and the wind	A
Filled all the room and swept me white and blind	A
Into the night I heard the sound of seas	H
Beleaguer earth I heard the roaring trees	H
Singing together We left them far behind	A
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And so he bore me into stormy Thrace	H
Me and my load and kissed back to my face	H
The sweet new blood of youth and to my limbs	H
The wine of life and there I bore him twins	H
Zethes and Cala s in a rock bound place	H
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Oreithyia by the North Wind carried	A
To stormy Thrace think you of how you tarried	A
And let him woo and wed Ah no for now	G
He's kissed all Athens from my open brow	G
I am the Wind's wife wooed and won and married	A
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Maurice Henry Hewlett

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