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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360821" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Troy Town</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HEAVENBORN Helen, Sparta's queen,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Had two breasts of heavenly sheen,<br>The sun and moon of the heart's desire:<br>All Love's lordship lay between.<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>Helen knelt at Venus' shrine,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Saying, “A little gift is mine,<br>A little gift for a heart's desire.<br>Hear me speak and make me a sign!<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“Look, I bring thee a carven cup;<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>See it here as I hold it up,—<br>Shaped it is to the heart's desire,<br>Fit to fill when the gods would sup.<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“It was moulded like my breast;<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>He that sees it may not rest,<br>Rest at all for his heart's desire.<br>O give ear to my heart's behest!<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“See my breast, how like it is;<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>See it bare for the air to kiss!<br>Is the cup to thy heart's desire?<br>O for the breast, O make it his!<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“Yea, for my bosom here I sue;<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Thou must give it where 'tis due,<br>Give it there to the heart's desire.<br>Whom do I give my bosom to?<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“Each twin breast is an apple sweet.<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Once an apple stirred the beat<br>Of thy heart with the heart's desire:—<br>Say, who brought it then to thy feet?<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“They that claimed it then were three:<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>For thy sake two hearts did he<br>Make forlorn of the heart's desire.<br>Do for him as he did for thee!<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>“Mine are apples grown to the south,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Grown to taste in the days of drouth,<br>Taste and waste to the heart's desire:<br>Mine are apples meet for his mouth.”<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>Venus looked on Helen's gift,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Looked and smiled with subtle drift,<br>Saw the work of her heart's desire:—<br>“There thou kneel'st for Love to lift!”<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>Venus looked in Helen's face,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Knew far off an hour and place,<br>And fire lit from the heart's desire;<br>Laughed and said, “Thy gift hath grace!”<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>Cupid looked on Helen's breast,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Saw the heart within its nest,<br>Saw the flame of the heart's desire,—<br>Marked his arrow's burning crest.<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>Cupid took another dart,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Fledged it for another heart,<br>Winged the shaft with the heart's desire,<br>Drew the string and said, “Depart!”<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)<br>Paris turned upon his bed,<br>(O Troy Town!)<br>Turned upon his bed and said,<br>Dead at heart with the heart's desire—<br>“Oh to clasp her golden head!”<br>(O Troy's down,<br>Tall Troy's on fire!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</a><div class=q>
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(O Troy Town!)
Had two breasts of heavenly sheen,
The sun and moon of the heart's desire:
All Love's lordship lay between.
(O Troy's down,
Tall Troy's on fire!)
Helen knelt at Venus' shrine,
(O Troy Town!)
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