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Pastimes : May Day, also known as Beltane -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nihil who wrote (703)	4/29/1999 9:19:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

That one's good, too. How nice this is, picnic blankets, champagne, refreshments, music, poetry, good conversation. The rustling under the beech trees.

To: nihil who wrote (703)	4/29/1999 11:03:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 2063

But could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, nor age no need, Then these delights my mind might move To live with thee and be thy Love. And isn't that the great attraction of e-love? For all the women at Beltane are forever nubile, forever young, forever beautiful (even if they just got out of bed and haven't had a shower in three days, they are still beautiful to me), forever lusty (and if they choose not to be lusty for a bit, they merely go off-line), and forever virginal, returning to virginity after each tryst. They never nag us to clean the bathroom, or mow the lawn, or get OFF the computer NOW and come to bed. So E, and Edwarda, and CobaltBlue, and jbe, and nihil, and all ye others ready to gather rosebuds perpetually, let us away to the beech wood (for a single beech tree will hardly suffice us) and live the life that the poets could only sing of!

To: nihil who wrote (703)	4/29/1999 12:20:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2063

Ah yes, but the Passionate Shepherd was proposing marriage; Marvell was proposing an affair. Therein lies the difference. Marvell's pitch was -- "Let's eat, drink, and bed down together, for tomorrow we die." We do not have his Coy Mistress's reply. In the case of the Passionate Shepherd, we have both the reply -- and the proposal (courtesy of Christopher Marlowe): Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields...... etc., etc., etc. The nymph, looking ahead to housework and middle age and the hard lot of a shepherd's wife, declines. But if she had been offered a one-night fling, under a beech tree on the first of May, who knows? jbe