Erotica Romana · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
XIV
Once upon a time had to a hero been kind. It was to Jason, powerful king of the Cretans, she granted Of her immortal self hidden sweet parts to explore. That made the fortune of Crete! The marital bed of the goddess Soon grew pregnant with grain, heavy her bounteous fields. As for the rest of the world, it languished away, while Ceres, Derelict of her true task, dalliance offered in love. --Now the initiate youths, having followed this tale, all astonished, Turned and beckoned their loves--love, do you comprehend? See there the sacred shade beneath that bushy-boughed myrtle? Our satisfaction will there scarcely endanger a world.
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