“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
 Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.”

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William Butler Yeats

"Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest,

but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot." —
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Margot Datz      

(A Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids)