Io

Io 

Phoenicians    deny they

     shackled Io    or stole her

     for Egypt: Io    herself,

they say, makes    love

with a captain    as his

     vessel lies    at Argos.

Then seeing    herself

          swollen    with his child,

     she leaves    her shores,

freely sails    with him

     to avoid    the revelation,

the shame,    the chiding

of her papa,    the king.  

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