Erotica Romana · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
III
All of it come off entire, if he's to learn how she feels? I encounter no troubles like those. Simple dress of rough homespun, At but a lover's mere touch, tumbles in folds to the floor. Quickly he carries the girl as she's clad in chemise of coarse linen-- Just as a nursemaid might, playfully up to her bed. Drapings of satin are absent; the mattress is quite unembroidered. Large is this room where the bed offers its comfort for two. Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it; Let any mortal find rest, softer, wherever he can. We are content with Cupid's delights, authentic and naked-- And with the exquisite creak /crack of the bed as it rocks.
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