Sacred Place
Where a string of Nymphs gathers in the sacred moonlight
to join in secret with Graces descended from Mount Olympus:
Here, the poet hides to listen to forbidden song, to see
the mystic dance, silent as the half-light of the moon.
What in heaven is holy beauty, what beauty earth
ever beheld, all appears to this waking dreamer.
He shows the muses, and so the gods should not anger,
the muses teach him words of humble little secrets.
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