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Leda
Queen of Sparta whom Zeus, taking the form of a swan, came down upon. Rilke's poem watches the god discover and lose himself in the swan's beauty as he descends into her.
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- New Poems: The Other Part §3 swan
Leda, queen of Sparta, taken by Zeus in the form of a swan; the poem follows the god as he loses and then finds himself wholly bird within her.
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