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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEDA AND THE SCARECROW, by GARRETT OPPENHEIM
First Line: Come as a friend, tyndareus, come in the firelight
Last Line: And crumbling arms beseech the gusty air.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scarecrows
First Line: Come as a friend, tyndareus, come in the firelight
Last Line: And crumbling arms beseech the gusty air.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Scarecrows
Come as a friend, Tyndareus, come in the firelight:
Seek me once more, among the known, sweet shadows;
And we shall talk, till the eye grow soft and sad,
Of an old queen's beauty and of a king's desire.
And you may lie lapped in your dreams of honor,
I, in my secret. You will not enter there.
I say you shall not touch the mind, Tyndareus.
Fear, King, the sanctuary of the swan!
Come as a friend. One gate alone is barred,
Behind whose bronze the roaring spark was kindled
That razed a city and set upon the wind
The name of a child -- of Helen. In that ruined garden
The sticks and rags of an old passion stare,
And crumbling arms beseech the gusty air.
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