Marlowe— HERO AND LEANDER part one from shorn Watch Video
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Description: a part of the NAKED LITERATURE project on nothingsacred.comnnnfrom Hero and Leander:nFIRST SESTIADnnAmorous Leander, beautiful and young,n(Whose tragedy divine Musaeus sung)nFor whom succeeding times make greater moan.nHis dangling tresses that were never shorn,nHad they been cut and unto Colchas3 borne,nWould have allured the vent’rous youth of GreecenTo hazard more than for the Golden Fleece.nFair Cynthia wished his arms might be her sphere;nHis body was as straight as Circe’s wand;nJove m