The Grape Harvest
Men with girls bear on their shoulders the black-skinned grape-clusters in baskets and throw them into a wine-press where men tread the grapes to set free the must, and beat out the great God with vintage-songs and watch Dionysus seething to lovely youth in the wine-jars.
When an old man drinks it he reels as he dances with wide-swung grey hair.
But a young man, full of wine, who finds a girl's delicate body laid asleep upon frail leaves takes her in sharp love before the bridal-time. He does not take her with words but by force against her will — for in young men the wine-god riots brutally.
When an old man drinks it he reels as he dances with wide-swung grey hair.
But a young man, full of wine, who finds a girl's delicate body laid asleep upon frail leaves takes her in sharp love before the bridal-time. He does not take her with words but by force against her will — for in young men the wine-god riots brutally.
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