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Classic poem of the day

THESEUS

Go, one of you, find out the forester,
For now our observation is performed,
And since we have the vaward of the day,
My love shall hear the music of my hounds:
Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:—
Despatch, I say, and find the forester.
We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,
And mark the musical confusion
Of hounds and echo in conjunction.

HIPPOLYTA

I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,
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Member poem of the day

She took it upon her mystic self
To do the job of pain
To make me want what I once had
by taking it away

Like softest bones, the whitest clothes
on a skin so pale
always close though never here
she seemed so far away

I said to you, to our young self
that I shall ever stay,
that muddy earth and rugged dirt
shall not take me away

And now those blue eyes stare at me
So I just look away
But there she is, and h...

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