Supplication: Ovid Tells Us

how Peleus won Thetis of the grey mist
by clasping her to the couch, and holding on
through her every changing shape, even the tigress.

You gods on Olympus, grant me that peace
once her shape-shifting is over, and promise me
by the Styx, it be over once and for all.

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