[00:04.93]IN summer's heat, and mid-time of the day,
[00:08.69]To rest my limbs, upon a bed I lay;
[00:12.47]One window shut, the other open stood,
[00:15.85]Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood,
[00:19.49]Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun,
[00:22.77]Or night being past, and yet not day begun;
[00:27.56]Such light to shamefaced maidens must be shown
[00:31.86]Where they may sport, and seem to be unknown:
[00:36.60]Then came Corinna in her long loose gown,
[00:40.35]Her white neck hid with tresses hanging down,
[00:44.39]Resembling fair Semiramis going to bed,
[00:48.64]Or Lais of a thousand wooers sped.
[00:53.08]I snatched her gown being thin, the harm was small,
[00:57.32]Yet strived she to be covered therewithal,
[01:01.21]And striving thus as one that would be cast,
[01:04.79]Betrayed herself, and yielded at the last.
[01:09.45]Stark naked as she stood before mine eye,
[01:13.28]Not one wen in her body could I spy.
[01:17.97]What arms and shoulders did I touch and see,
[01:22.37]How apt her breasts were to be pressed by me,
[01:27.07]How smooth a belly under her waist saw I,
[01:31.52]How large a leg, and what a lusty thigh.
[01:35.95]To leave the rest, all liked me passing well;
[01:40.68]I clinged her naked body, down she fell:
[01:45.72]Judge you the rest, being tired she bade me kiss;
[01:51.76]Jove send me more such afternoons as this!
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