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1851–1919

TO VENUS

Roswell Martin Field

Venus, dear Cnidian-Paphian queen! Desert that Cyprus way off yonder, And fare you hence, where with incense My Glycera would have you fonder;

And to your joy bring hence your boy, The Graces with unbelted laughter, The Nymphs, and Youth,— then, then, in sooth, Should Mercury come tagging after.

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