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Article: Actaeon.(Poem)
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- Poetry
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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ACTAEON
The hounds, you know them all by name.
You fostered them from purblind whelps
At their dam's teats, and you have come
To know the music of their yelps:
High-strung Anthee, the brindled bitch,
The blue-tick coated Philomel,
And freckled Chloe, who would fetch
A pretty price if you would sell--
All fleet of foot, and swift to scent,
Inexorable once on the track,
Like angry words you might have meant,
But do not mean, and can't take back.
There was a time when you would brag
How they would hay and rend apart
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