The Rape of Proserpina

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Ted Charnley<

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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