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hymen Noun Anat a membrane that partly covers the entrance to the vagina and is usually ruptured when sexual intercourse takes place for the first time [Greek: membrane]
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And used to throw my earthly rest And quiet all away in jest-- I could not love except where Death Was mingling his with Beauty's breath-- Or Hymen, Time, and Destiny, Were stalking between her and me. The Aged was likewise occupied in preparing a similar sacrifice for the altar of Hymen. --if I had only been cast loose on the ballrooms of London, to qualify under Hymen, for a golden degree |
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