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Zenophilia, my flowering tree, you are asleep. Though wingless, I would come to you like Hypnos^, And bury myself under your eyelids -- So that even sleep might not intrude, As I alone posses you. — Meleagros (1st century B. C.) ^Hypnos: god of sleep |
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Sole Tenure |
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From a statue of the Greek God Hypnos |
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Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death) |
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