{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob062.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob062.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob062.htm","text":"Your little feet are daintier than those of silver Thetis. 81 You cross your arms and press your breasts together, and rock them softly, like two snowy doves.\nBeneath your hair you hide your moistened eyes, your trembling mouth and the red flowers of your ears; but naught shall stay my gentle glance or the warm breath of my kiss.\nFor in the secret of your body it is you, beloved Mnasidika, who hide the grotto of the nymphs which aged Homer sings, the place where the na\u00efads weave their purple robes.\nWhere drop by drop the quenchless springs do flow, and from which the Northern gate permits men to descend, and where the South Gate lets Immortals enter.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: II. Elegies At Mytilene: The Grotto of the Nymphs","type":"page"}