Talk:Moon

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• The moon is nothing
  But a circumambulating aphrodisiac
  Divinely subsidized to provoke the world
  Into a rising birth-rate.
  • Christopher Fry, The Lady's Not for Burning (1949), act 3 (spoken by Thomas Mendip)

• Shine out, O hornèd Moon, O festal night’s befriender,
    Shine through the latticed window with thy silver light;
  My golden fair illume, gaze forth in all thy splendour,—
    Immortal eyes are free to look on love’s delight:—
  Thy conscious heart, I know, is kind to us and tender,—
    Endymion, O Selene, set thine own heart’s flame alight!
  • Philodemus of Gadara, Greek Anthology, bk. 5, no. 123, trans. Walter Headlam (1907)