{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/sob/sob067.htm","path":"cla/sob/sob067.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/sob067.htm","text":"We slipped beneath the transparent coverlet of wool, she and I. Even our heads were hidden, and the lamp lit up the cloth above us.\nAnd thus I saw her dear body in a mysterious glow. We were much closer to each other, freer, more naked and more intimate. \"In the selfsame shift,\" she said to me.\nWe left our hair done up so that we'd be more bare, and in the close air of the bed two female odors rose, as from two natural censers.\nNothing in the world, not even the lamp, saw us that night. And which of us was loved and which the lover, she and I alone can ever tell. But the men shall never know a thing about it.","title":"The Songs of Bilitis: II. Elegies At Mytilene: Shadowlight","type":"page"}