Page:Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Hitherto unpublished, 1921.djvu/154

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TO PRIAPUS

Lo, in thy green enclosure here,
Let not the ugly or the old appear,
Divine Priapus; but with leaping tread
The schoolboy, and the golden head
Of the slim filly twelve years old—
Let these to enter and to steal be bold!

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