The Rape of Proserpina
The Rape of Proserpina
I am Bernini, prodigy of Rome,
and she my helpless nymph and he my god.
I freed them from a single quarried block,
for her to flee, be caught and carried off.
Now see him lift her, see his grasping hand
compress the p . . .
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