bathing in the river, Semele took note yon eagle
bloody from blots to zeus, his attentions "regal"
Semele demanded the god in full glory,
thus reduced by thunderbolt, an immortal story;
from fires sprung son dio, wine god of frenzy
born to soothe time and man, needing ecstasy
a phoenix not ready, zeus sewed in his thigh:
dionysus, with river nymphs, and mystis, resides
raised in sheer mountains, with panthers, his wine,
wand tipped with spine-bone, honey of pine
mead's golden warm fuel fires the dance
epiphany blooms in orgy perchance
twice born, the grape low:
wine risen, man knows:
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