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[post_content] => Then in the afternoon no faun,
no faun had been promised, a whimsy only,
sight of a faun would please the soul.
Not enough leap for a distant sighting –
good conscience anyway would not allow it,
did we hear a faun that day? No, we did not.
Without fulfilment of faun whimsy,
without on that wayward afternoon a faun,
quick now, hide and be sad alone.
The long wait and the snarl of a quick sunset,
no faun had leapt, night –
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Then in the afternoon no faun,
no faun had been promised, a whimsy only,
sight of a faun would please the soul.
Not enough leap for a distant sighting –
good conscience anyway would not allow it,
did we hear a faun that day? No, we did not.
Without fulfilment of faun whimsy,
without on that wayward afternoon a faun,
quick now, hide and be sad alone.
The long wait and the snarl of a quick sunset,
no faun had leapt, night –