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With a human child, it is even more humiliating for a parent to admit that he or she has contributed inferior genetic material to a child than it is to admit a failure in upbringing. Leda's case was different.
"Yet even these are not for ever one. The god flies from the goddess. And a swan Does devoir now, the slave of Leda's charms. "Thus I behold the beams of thy bright eye, And bid my home farewell, I, hapless wight, Fly like the god, fair maid, to worship thee!"
The German lacks the happy faculty, which distinguishes the two nations just discussed, of isolating a problem near at hand, and he is accustomed to begin his system with Leda's egg; but, by way of compensation, he combines the lofty flight of the French with the phlegmatic endurance of the English, i.e., he seeks his principles far above experience, but, instead of stopping with the establishment of points of view or when he has set the note, he carries his principles through in detail with loving industry and comprehensive architectonic skill.
He thinks only of nestling against Leda's bosom without hurting her, and of breathing forth into song everything that is mortal within him. Human beings and what they want and do, seemed to me, when I thought of it, like gray, motionless figures; but in the holy solitude all around me everything was light and color.
Leda with the Swan; as for Jupiter, in this transformation, he has much the appearance of a goose. I have not seen any thing tamer; but the sculptor has admirably shewn his art in representing Leda's hand partly hid among the feathers, which are so lightly touched off, that the very shape of the fingers are seen underneath.
The Frenchman had gone about also, and both ships were now heading slowly for the sea under fore-and-aft canvas, the Gloire a hundred yards in advance. She luffed up to cross the Leda's bows, but the British ship came round also, and the two rippled slowly on in such a silence that the ringing of the ramrods as the French marines drove home their charges clanged quite loudly upon the ear.
I flew down to where the steamer lay moored that had borne me the previous day. Her joint speed with the speed of Leda's boat would be forty knots: in three hours we must meet.
"Yet even these are not for ever one. The god flies from the goddess. And a swan Does devoir now, the slave of Leda's charms. "Thus I behold the beams of thy bright eye, And bid my home farewell, I, hapless wight, Fly like the god, fair maid, to worship thee !"
"Yet even these are not for ever one. The god flies from the goddess. And a swan Does devoir now, the slave of Leda's charms. "Thus I behold the beams of thy bright eye, And bid my home farewell, I, hapless wight, Fly like the god, fair maid, to worship thee!"
And, beholding her, Jurgen kneeled. He hid his face in her white robe: and he stayed thus, without speaking, for a long while. "Lady of my vision," he said, and his voice broke "there is that in you which wakes old memories. For now assuredly I believe your father was not Dom Manuel but that ardent bird which nestled very long ago in Leda's bosom.
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