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Dawn's Delay, Meleager

XXVI
DAWN'S DELAY
MELEAGER
Grey dawn, why, O unloving, rollest thou now so slow round the world, since another is shrouded and warm by Demo? but when I held her delicate form to my breast, swift thou wert upon us, shedding on me a light that seemed to rejoice in my grief.



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