To this day to celebrate the force that drives the pulse of life, that stares in the face of black-robed nay-sayers, I offer this with the joyous face of love and delight, my "Hymn to Her" who embodies all pulsing desire and fulfillment.
HYMN TO VENUS
Laughter-loving Aphrodite!
Venus Amathusia!
Come to me with laughing breast,.
Come on waves with golden crest,
Come with doves and golden light,
Drawn by swans and sparrows bright.
Alight! Alight!
I am thy man I am thy mate!
Receive me til our storm abate!
Thy green glades echo with my calls,
Come to me from emerald halls,
Flanked by maidens winding there,
Rose and myrtle in thy golden hair,
Come to me! to me! to me!
and mate with me upon the grass,
Laughing, lusty, oh ravishing lass!
Our bodies arch and strain and twine,
I am thine and thou art mine!
Come from heavens of azure hue,
Ocean born and ever new,
Pulsing, laughing, yearning, straining,
Pleasure, lust, all life containing,
Race with me through glades of green,
Exalting, loving, Oh rapturous queen!
To me! to me!
Oh come to me!
And enter, merge, enfold, unite!
Suffuse desire with golden light!
Never sated in eons of time,
I am thine and thou art mine!