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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 14. ...snare me his shadow...
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Out of the mid-wood's twilight,
Into the meadow's dawn,
Ivory-limbed and brown-eyed
Flashes my faun.
He skips through the copses singing,
And his shadow dances along,
And I know not which I should follow,
Shadow or song.
O Hunter snare me his shadow,
nightingale catch me his strain,
For, moonstruck by madness and music
I seek him in vain.
—Oscar Wilde,[i]
circa 1889
[i] “Out of the mid-wood twilight” Oscar Wilde Fragments and Memories, Martin Birnbaum [Editor], (New York 1914), p. 7
https://archive.org/details/oscarwildefragme00birnrich/page/6/mode/2up
Birnbaum introduces the work with the following comments: “The most precious souvenir of the friendship between the two men is the manuscript of the following poem, found in a presentation copy of ‘Intentions.’ It has no title, and is signed ‘Oscar.’”
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