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NOCTURNE by LE BARON COOKE

First Line: MOONLIGHT, AND THE SPARKLE OF NUDE BOYS
Last Line: UNAFRAID, THEY ALL CREEP INTO THE SHELTER OF THE THE THROBBING DARK.
Subject(s): MAN-WOMAN RELATIONSHIPS; YOUTH; MALE-FEMALE RELATIONS;
Moonlight, and the sparkle of nude boys
Dancing like slender fauns across the sandbar,
Enchant the night.

Girls, unclad, in the witchery
Of virgin whiteness,
Scurry across the stretches of moonlit beach
Like sprites
From the passionate sea-
Over slippery crag and rock
The boys pursue them,
Till they are tormentingly beyond
Their impetuous arms.

Suddenly the moon is devoured by a giant cloud;
Unafraid, they all creep into the shelter of the the throbbing Dark.



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