LPPM MMV "Sit Tibi Terra Levis"

[Glenn Scheper]

> ... swan song comes from Greece, where in ancient
> times, swans (who actually never sing) were believed
> to sing a song before death.

Yes, but you failed to draw in how death can be metamorphosis.
For as a metamorphosized autofellator, I recognize many poets'
mention of birds mean the overhanging penis. Hey, I see Yeats,
my recognizable fellow in this arcane knowledge, and I recall
autocunnilingtrix Emily Dickinson recognized the bird trope:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Dickinson/i-had-been-hungry
I had been hungry all the years-
...
I did not know the ample bread,
'T was so unlike the crumb
The birds and I had often shared
In Nature's dining-room.

http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/Dickinson/a-bird-came-down
A bird came down the walk:
He did not know I saw;
He bit an angle-worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw.

http://www.d-sites.net/english/yeats.htm
_Yeats' Leda and the swan: an image's coming of age_

http://www.unc.edu/courses/2002fall/engl/093/002/WH_Auden/zeus.htm
_zeus_
URTAT (19th c) Leda and the swan by Leonardo di Bottega (16t

http://www.bta.it/txt/a0/02/en/bta00281.html
_BTA - Telematic Bulletin of Art / Texts / bta00281.html_
ear the seat allowed to the Swan, That Jupiter himself creat

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mcft/mcft21.htm
_More Celtic Fairy Tales: Notes and References_
lso the same list sub voce "Swan Maiden Transformation." In 

http://celt.net/Celtic/msg/mmmakers/mmmakers_III.html
_Myths and Myth-Makers : Werewolves and Swan-Maidens_

http://www.trockadero.org/Repertory/swanLake..html
_Swan Lake (Act 2) - Trock Repertory_

http://www.rfc791.org/~churl/lit/gist2002.html
_churl: The Gist of it 2002_
ng was actually a beautiful swan! You know what? This story 

http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlsjour.html
_Early Modern Literary Studies: A Journal of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English Literature_

http://www.malvision.com/em/swan-lake/eswanlake.htm
_Swan Lake_

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0830171.html
_Lohengrin_
suitor. Led to Antwerp by a swan, Lohengrin saves Elsa and m

http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/L/Lohengri.html
_AllRefer Encyclopedia - Lohengrin (German Literature) - Encyclopedia_

http://www.bartleby.com/65/lo/Lohengri.html
_Lohengrin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001_

http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/sandys/contents.htm
_Sandys' Ovid 1632 (linked table of contents)--Ovid Illustrated, University of Virginia Electronic Text Center_

http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/L/Lohengri.asp
_Lohengrin on Encyclopedia.com_

http://haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol4/triinu.htm
_ZOOMORF_
e good divers, as well as a swan, an owl, a crow, and an eag

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/notes.html
_Ovid Illustrated: the Renaissance Reception of Ovid--University of Virginia Electronic Text Center_
of 1563. 2/4a Cygnus into a Swan. [ 2.367-80] 2/5 Apollo Den

http://hjem.get2net.dk/leduc/htmls/skulptur/metamorf.htm
_Metamorphosis - Leda and the swan_

http://www.www71242.w1.com/scstore/p-1999800258.html
_Duck Becomes Swan: the Rx-to-Dx Metamorphosis of Cygnus_

http://www.artseek.com/angie/metamorphosis.html
_Bronze Sculptures by Angie Whitson_
ell to the 5th sculpture, a Swan song for a sat'yr. These ar

http://www.geocities.com/tmartiac/thalassa/ovid.htm
_Ovid's Metamorphoses_

http://d-sites.net/english/weiner.htm
_Lawrence Weiner: and the flesh became word_

http://www.mythology.com/bookofwerewolves3.html
_Book of Werewolves Chapter 3 - MythologyWeb_
ther was Svanhwit, Who wore swan feathers; And the third, Th

http://www.popartuk.com/art/salvador-dali-ea001-print.asp
_Salvador Dali, Reflections of Elephants - Buy Online_
: The reflection of elegant swan's metamorphosis's into elep

http://www.fabrisia.com/totemanimals.htm
_Totem Animals_
uirrel ~~ planner, gatherer Swan ~~ grace, balance and innoc

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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