Vulgar words in A Book of Myths (Page 1)
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Therefore one day when he and his court were sitting in the solemn state that Midas required, there rode into their midst, tipsily swaying on the back of a gentle full-fed old grey ass, ivy-crowned, jovial and foolish, the satyr Silenus, guardian of the young god Bacchus.
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Then he spoke: "The ears of an ass have heard my music," he said.
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"Henceforth shall Midas have ass's ears."
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And when Midas, in terror, clapped his hands to his crisp black hair, he found growing far beyond it, the long, pointed ears of an ass.
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And then, at length, silence was to him a torture too great to be borne; he sought a lonely place, there dug a deep hole, and, kneeling by it, softly whispered to the damp earth: "King Midas has ass's ears."
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And when the winds blew through them, the rushes whispered for all those who passed by to hear: "King Midas has ass's ears!
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King Midas has ass's ears!"